Awkward moment Shawn Mendes stood in silence with the Queen for 10 MINUTES – after being told he wasn’t allowed to speak to her
SHAWN Mendes has recalled the moment he stood in silence with the Queen for a VERY awkward 10 minutes. Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen Show, the 21-year-old singer revealed how at Her Maj’s 92nd birthday last year, he had a very awkward encounter with the birthday girl. When asked what it was like […]
SHAWN Mendes has recalled the moment he stood in silence with the Queen for a VERY awkward 10 minutes.
Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen Show, the 21-year-old singer revealed how at Her Maj’s 92nd birthday last year, he had a very awkward encounter with the birthday girl.
When asked what it was like to play for the Queen, Shawn explained it “was insane”.
“I’m half British, so my granddad and my nan were there, so it was a massive deal for them,” he said.
“I’m in this backstage area and I’m standing there waiting to go on stage and the Queen just walks up next to me.
“And, you can’t say anything, you’re not allowed to speak to her unless she speaks to you first.
“So it was like 10 minutes of just awkward silence between me and the Queen.
“She didn’t look at me at all, I looked over a couple of times and I was like, I probably shouldn’t be looking.
“It was super weird, she didn’t say anything.”
And Shawn even had an encounter with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry – which if possible, sounds even more awkward.
The singer explained that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were also at the birthday event – but that he was too “star struck” to say hello.
“I was walking down the hall and I saw them in a room, and they’re just talking,” he explained.
“And I walked in with this confidence and the second they sort of felt me come in I just turned around and my body went numb and I was like, I can’t do it.
“I’ve never been so star struck like that, I walked in and didn’t stop, just walked out in one flow of motion.”
Last week, Simon Pegg joked that he had “broken” the Queen when she struggled to start a conversation with him in 2010.
The pair met for the first time at the premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader which saw the monarch introduced to all the members of the cast.
But they ran into an awkward moment when the Queen was stumped for something to say to the actor.
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