The glittering white-tie State Banquet has taken place this evening in Windsor, but Prince William will no doubt be disappointed that the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer , sat next to Claudia Schiffer, not him.

Speaking in a 2017 documentary 'Diana, Our Mother', the future king said he came home from school one day to find three supermodels waiting to meet him: Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.

Prince William spoke about the encounter: "I was probably a 12 or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall and I went bright red and didn't quite know what to say and sort of fumbled and pretty much fell down the stairs on the way out."

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