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Royal eyebrows may be raised after a former girlfriend of Prince
\nEdward announced plans to publish a memoir detailing their
\nfive-year romance and her encounters with Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n
West End star Ruthie Henshall, 59, is set to lift the lid on her Henshall began dating Prince Edward in 1988 after the pair met Ahead of the book\u2019s publication next month, Henshall has Speaking to Yours<\/em> magazine, she revealed that despite \u201cThe late Queen in particular was lovely,\u201d Henshall said. \u201cI Instead, overcome by nerves, she instinctively reached out and \u201cWhen I did meet her, I forgot to curtsy and grabbed her by the Reflecting on her position at the time, she added: \u201cHere I was, Despite her fears, Henshall said the late monarch was gracious The actress and singer has also spoken warmly of Prince Edward, \u201cI genuinely fell in love with him,\u201d she said. \u201cI suppose I was The relationship ultimately ended because of the demands of Her forthcoming memoir is expected to provide a rare glimpse The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have not commented on the Announcing its release on social media, Henshall described the The book is due to be published in July.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Royal eyebrows may be raised after a former girlfriend of Prince Edward announced plans to publish a memoir detailing their five-year romance and her encounters with Queen Elizabeth II. West End star Ruthie Henshall, 59, is set to lift the lid on her relationship with the Duke of Edinburgh in a new book, The Showgirl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2265769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Prince-Edward-speaks-out-for-victims-following-Andrew-revelations.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454241,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454240\/revisions\/2454241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nrelationship with the Duke of Edinburgh in a new book, The
\nShowgirl and the Prince<\/em>, which promises what she describes as
\na \u201cbrutally honest\u201d account of a love affair that unfolded inside
\nroyal circles.<\/p>\n
\nwhile working for composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Their relationship
\nlasted five years and represented one of the most serious romances
\nof the late Queen\u2019s youngest son before he went on to marry Sophie,
\nnow Duchess of Edinburgh, in 1999.<\/p>\n
\nrecalled what she described as a mortifying first encounter with
\nQueen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n
\nbeing instructed by her father on royal protocol, she completely
\nforgot to curtsy when meeting the monarch.<\/p>\n
\nremember my dad had told me that if you ever met the Queen you
\ncurtsied and called her ma\u2019am.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nshook the Queen\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n
\nhand saying, \u2018I\u2019m really pleased to meet you, really pleased to
\nmeet you\u2019,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
\nthis chorus girl dating her youngest son \u2013 it must have been her
\nworst nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nand welcoming.<\/p>\n
\ndescribing him as \u201ckind and thoughtful\u201d and \u201ca lovely bloke\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nnot like anyone he\u2019d dated before, a warm and flirty leotard-clad
\nchorus girl, prone to telling risqu\u00e9 jokes and drinking and smoking
\ntoo much.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ntheir respective careers, although the pair remained on good terms.
\nHenshall was later invited to attend Edward\u2019s wedding to Sophie at
\nSt George\u2019s Chapel, Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n
\ninto Prince Edward\u2019s life before royal duties took centre stage, as
\nwell as offering readers an insight into the late Queen away from
\nthe public spotlight.<\/p>\n
\nbook.<\/p>\n
\nmemoir as recounting \u201ca deep love\u201d and \u201ca life beyond my wildest
\ndreams\u201d.<\/p>\n