Kate Winslet almost flashed King Charles III at the tender age of 20, she admitted on a US chat show. The Titanic actress forgot she was wearing “transparent lace”, and hadn’t quite comprehended that she was going to meet the future King at the premiere of Sense and Sensibility in 1996 . It wasn’t the final time the two would cross paths – fast forward 20 years and she would have yet another nerve-racking encounter.

“The first time I met him, he had come to support the royal premiere of Sense and Sensibility,” she said. “I was only 20. I hadn’t realised that we were going to meet him.” At the time, he was the Prince of Wales.

She recalled: “I forgot about the fact that I was wearing a kind of transparent lace outfit. And thank god I'd worn a coat because as he’s making his way toward

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