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Great British Bake Off star Dame Prue Leith has revealed how the late Queen Elizabeth got her own back after she made an embarrassing mistake while meeting the monarch decades earlier.

While she has gone on to become one of the biggest names on British TV over the years, Dame Prue recently looked back on her younger days when she had the rare opportunity to meet Queen Elizabeth.

During a recent episode of the Making A Scene podcast, Dame Prue shared how her challenge of having to provide a cup of tea for the Queen went wrong during a somewhat embarrassing event over 50 years ago.

Recalling the mishap, Dame Prue told podcast co-hosts Matt Lucas and David Walliams that she had tried to pull out all the stops to make sure the Queen had her tea exactly how she desired.

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