These 9 Celebrities Totally Broke Protocol When They Met the Royal Family

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How Miles Teller "Messed Up" Meeting Prince William & Kate Middleton

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Did you cognize determination is simply a database of dos and don'ts erstwhile it comes to gathering the royal family—even if you are a celebrity? Miles Teller recently revealed that the formed of Top Gun: Maverick received a sheet detailing due mode to prosecute with Prince William and Kate Middleton prior to the film's London premiere...not that helium ended up pursuing each of the rules. In fact, the histrion admitted to committing respective mistakes during his brushwood with the couple.

But helium is not the lone prima to interruption the rules and extremity up royally flushed. Did you cognize 1 of The Spice Girls made headlines for supposedly pinching King Charles III's bum? Or that Margot Robbie once prank-called Prince Harry on a situation from a co-star? Plus, Michelle Obama revealed the precocious Queen Elizabeth II's astonishing absorption erstwhile she made a nationalist faux pas during their archetypal meeting.

Here are 8 examples of stars slipping up portion gathering the royal family:

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Miles Teller

Year: 2022
Offense: During an quality on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Teller revealed that the formed received a database of "dos and don'ts" erstwhile it to came to interacting with Prince William and Kate Middleton at Top Gun: Maverick's London premiere successful May. "There's a batch of etiquette and I had a expanse truthful I wouldn't f--k it up," helium joked.

But that is precisely what helium ended up doing.

"Right disconnected the bat I messed up," helium admitted. "You're not expected to widen your manus close disconnected the bat unless they do. But I felt the vibe, truthful I'm like, 'I'm going in, I'm going in.'"

Teller continued, "To their credit, they were precise disarming. I was lost. Prince William's eyes...Kate was beauteous and cordial, but with William—I don't know, I blacked out."

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Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell

Year: 1997
Offense: In 1 of the '90s astir iconic popular civilization moments, The Spice Girls prima caused a commotion erstwhile she allegedly pinched King Charles III' butt astatine the premiere of Spice World

But Halliwell acceptable the grounds consecutive successful 2016, clarifying that she "patted" his bum.

"Patting him connected the bottommost was against royal protocol but we're each human," she told The Times. "There was a batch of tense energy...young women, blessed antics."

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Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie

Year: 2016
Offense: While filming Suicide Squad together, Delevingne dared Robbie to prank-call Prince Harry, a situation she reluctantly accepted.

"I said, 'We can't prank-call ­royalty,' but anyhow we did,'" Robbie told The Sun successful 2018, "and helium was truthful chill with it."

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Tom Hiddleston

Year: 2016
Offense: While radical speculated that the Marvel prima broke the rules erstwhile helium hugged Queen Consort Camilla at a foundation event, a spokesperson for Clarence House confirmed to People that determination was nary breach successful protocol.

 "I deliberation she rather enjoyed it!" the spokesperson said, noting that Hiddleston's gathering with Charles' woman was a "warm moment" and that the brace "got connected precise good and had a precise bully chat together."

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Allison Janney

Year: 2018
Offense: The Oscar victor broke respective royal rules erstwhile she met  astatine William and Kate astatine the BAFTA Film Awards. Not lone was Janney barefoot, she besides called the then-pregnant Duchess an affectionate nickname. 

"I conscionable told her that I was successful bare feet and...she should instrumentality her shoes disconnected 'cause she's pregnant," Janney recalled on The Late Late Show. "It was an awkward moment. As I did, I called her 'honey' and that mightiness not person been royal etiquette."

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Ed Sheeran

Year: 2017
Offense: The "Bad Habits"  vocalist made a, well, atrocious determination erstwhile helium was awarded with an MBE by King Charles.

"Apparently, I did a large faux pas," Sheeran aboriginal told NBC. "I shook his manus and past grabbed it and you're not meant to bash that."

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Michelle Obama

Year: 2009
Offense: In her 2018 memoir Becoming, the erstwhile archetypal woman elaborate the clip she broke royal protocol while meeting Queen Elizabeth II, revealing that her majesty didn't look to caput the slip-up.

"Forget that she sometimes wore a diamond crown and that I'd flown to London connected a statesmanlike jet; we were 2 bushed ladies oppressed by our shoes," Obama wrote of their archetypal gathering successful April 2009. "I past did what's instinctive to maine anytime I consciousness connected to a caller person, which is to explicit my feelings outwardly. I laid a manus affectionately crossed her shoulder."

with ere 2 bushed ladies oppressed by our shoes," Obama wrote of their archetypal gathering successful April 2009. "I past did what's instinctive to maine anytime I consciousness connected to a caller person, which is to explicit my feelings outwardly. I laid a manus affectionately crossed her shoulder."

The infinitesimal was photographed and Obama received flack for the casual interaction. "I tried not to fto the disapproval rattle me," she wrote. "If I hadn't done the due happening astatine Buckingham Palace, I had astatine slightest done the quality thing."

Obama continued, "I daresay the Queen was good with it, too, due to the fact that erstwhile I touched her, she lone pulled closer, resting a gloved manus lightly connected the tiny of my back."

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Lewis Hamilton

Year: 2009
Offense: After being presented with an MBE by Her Majesty, the seven-time Formula One champion attended a backstage luncheon with Queen Elizabeth and … and the speech took a incorrect turn.

"I was excited and started to speech to her,"  Hamilton told Graham Norton successful 2015. "But she said, pointing to my left, 'No you talk that mode first, and I'll talk this mode and past I'll travel backmost to you."

But Hamilton did yet get to talk with the queen, saying, "She is simply a saccharine woman, and we talked astir however she spends her weekends, houses and music."

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Anna Wintour

Year: 2018
Offense: The devil wears Prada and Wintour ever wears sunglasses, adjacent erstwhile sitting adjacent to the queen successful the beforehand enactment astatine Richard Quinn's manner show. According to etiquette adept Grant Harrold, the Vogue editor-in-chief should person removed her signature shades portion successful the beingness of royalty.

"Ms. Wintour should cognize that to deterioration sunglasses erstwhile talking to different person, with nary aesculapian reason, is unacceptable," Harrold told the Press Association. "She should person removed them earlier being successful the beingness of the Queen, fto unsocial successful discussion."

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