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Ruthie Henshall apologises for making crude comment about her romance with Prince Edward

Ruthie Henshall has apologised for making a crude comment about her romance with Prince Edward during her time on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

The stage actress dated the Earl of Wessex, who is the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, on-and-off for about five years in the 1990s.

Just a few days after she entered the I’m A Celeb camp, Ruthie joked about ‘shagging’ the British Royal at Buckingham Palace during a chat with Shane Richie.

However, the 53-year-old has since admitted she regrets making the comment as she “forgot the cameras were there”.

Speaking to MailOnline after she was voted off the show, Ruthie confessed: “I only said it to make Shane laugh. Then I quickly became aware everything is being recorded.”

“Honestly, I forgot the cameras were there. It was meant to be a good old joke, a bit rude. But it was for Shane – it wasn’t supposed to be for everyone.”

“I had no idea [I’m A Celeb] films everything. I very much apologise for that comment, that was not meant for everyone to hear!”

Ruthie dated Prince Edward back in the 90s

During her chat with Shane Richie, Ruthie also opened up about how she met Prince Edward – and was later introduced to the Queen.

Ruthie said: “He was a production assistant at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s. And he then called me himself (Andrew) and he wanted me to play the lead in A Star Is Born. And Edward was my point of contact.”

“He was the one who’d call me up and say you’re rehearsing at 2 o’clock or whatever. And he said to me would you like to come to mine and watch the film of A Star Is Born with me and you can have some dinner. I was like what, ‘At the Palace, is that where you live?’”

Recalling meeting the Queen for the first time, the stage actress said: “He invited me to Windsor for the weekend, as we’re walking I’m seeing a table outside and there’s people sitting round it.”

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“And I’m thinking that looks like the Queen, and I remembered my dad had said to me that if you ever meet the Queen, you curtsy and call her ma’am.”

“I grab her hand like this (handshake), forget all about the curtsy and I’m like, ‘Really really pleased to meet you, really pleased to meet you.’”

Shane then asked, “Did you know Diana much?” referring to the Princess of Wales, who tragically died in a car accident back in 1997.

Ruthie said: “I met her a couple of times and one of my favourite times was we were at Balmoral, there was Diana, The Queen, Margaret, the Queen Mother, Charles, Edward, myself.”

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“She [Diana] was lovely. I don’t remember an awful lot because Charles gave me my first
martini. I’d never tried it before so I was fairly… I had two of them and I was like woah.”

The West End actress also revealed Princess Margaret asked her to sing for them.

“Margaret goes ‘yes, yes, oh sing us a song from that show you’re in, ‘and I was in Les Mis at the time. So I sang I Dreamed A Dream and I must have changed key three times because I was so pissed on martinis!”

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