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During her I\u2019m A Celebrity Appearance just years ago, Ruthie joked to a fellow camper, Shane Richie: \u201cYou performed in Buckingham Palace, you sang in the gardens, I sha***d in the bedrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She also shared a story about how she got drunk on \u201cmartinis\u201d and performed for the royals one evening, even interrupting the late Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret while they were singing a hymn at Balmoral Castle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She once told Hello! Magazine: “I met (Diana) a couple of times and one of my favourite, favourite times \u2013 we were at Balmoral, Diana, the Queen, (Princess) Margaret, the Queen Mother, Edward, myself. She was lovely. I don’t remember an awful lot because Charles gave me my first martini so I was fairly… I had two of them and I was like ‘Woah’.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“The Queen and Margaret start singing a hymn and Diana goes, ‘Sing us a song!’ Margaret then goes, ‘Yes sing us a song from that show you’re in’. I was in Les Mis\u00e9rables at the time, and I sang I Dreamed a Dream and I must’ve changed key three times because I was so p***** on martinis.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
As reported by Hello! Magazine, she said: “I found old diaries which I began writing in the 1980s and then found all my letters from Prince Edward, and I was struck by how precious this time in my life was.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Ensure our latest royal headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. <\/strong>Click here to activate<\/a><\/strong> or just add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n She continued: “I was on the West End stage \u2013 my dream since I was a girl \u2013 and shared a love with a man very few people even know. If this was someone else’s story, I would think they had made it up. So here it is \u2013 a look behind the curtain of a crazy life in musical theatre and what happens next when a showgirl falls in love with a prince.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ruthie met a number of royals during her time as Prince Edward\u2019s girlfriend, including Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles, when he was Prince Charles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ruthie and Edward\u2019s relationship was believed to have lasted five years on and off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n