Actress Emily Mortimer Became An Overnight Royal Family Fan After Meeting Charles, Prince Of Wales At A Garden Party.
The Shutter Island star, whose late father Sir John Mortimer was a friend of the British royals, grew up despising the family and what it stood for - but then she met the current heir to the throne and now she cannot get her hands on enough memorabilia to decorate her home in New York.
She says, "I buy the plates, I haul my children out of bed at five in the morning to watch the royal wedding. It's weird. (They have) Union Jack lampshades in their bedroom and all this. It's pathetic, really... The funny things is I was very anti-the royal family when I lived there (England); I thought it was a waste of taxpayers' money... and now I'm just crazy about them.
"My mum and dad vaguely knew them... They knew Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles... One day my mum got invited to a sort of tea party at Clarence House, where Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles live, which Camilla Parker-Bowles was throwing for her friends and their children and grandchildren.
"My mum made us all get dressed up in all our finery... and I was complaining all the way, saying, 'This is ridiculous', and, 'Why are we going to this stupid thing?'"
But the posh bash was "rather lovely" and Mortimer found herself having fun, especially when she was given the task of looking after the baby of her mother's friend.
She recalls, "I was tapped on the shoulder and there was Prince Charles... I don't know what happened. I just lost my mind. I was so over-excited... I sunk into a sort of low curtsy and just went bright red and he was so charming and nice.
"I turned round to look at this baby that I was meant to be looking after and the baby was completely gone. There was no sign of this baby... I was so overcome with emotion of meeting Prince Charles, who I thought I hated but it turned out I was just in love with... About three horrible minutes went by... I found the baby in a rose bush."
Comedies don't get much darker than this pitch-black British movie, written and directed by Sally...
Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel is adapted into a remarkably intelligent, gently involving film anchored...
Tony Webster is a retired man in his sixties whose past comes back to haunt...
Jude gets the surprise of his life when his biological father Les shows up at...
Based on the Brian Selznick novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Scorsese's first family movie...
Hugo is a twelve year old boy who lives in Paris and loves mysteries. One...
Lightning McQueen knows he's the best and fastest race car in the world and when...
Occasionally even close families keep secrets from one and other, the small white lies that...
Essentially a B-movie thriller with an A-list cast and production values (and an epic's running...
Watch the trailer for Shutter Island In the 1950's mental patients were incarcerated in some...
Watch the trailer for Harry Brown If you're a pensioner and live in a rough...
Remorse is a dangerous thing in the mind of a man. It can hold...
Disney sure lays it on thick in "The Kid," a feel-good family flick starring Bruce...
For a long time I've had a theory that the musical genre couldn't survive the...