Betty White warned 'not to address' Queen despite royal invitation to Royal Variety

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Queen.They were at the height of the sitcom’s popularity when they visited London upon royal invitation to perform live in front of senior royals.And in a 2014 Reddit AMA with Betty, one fan asked the comedy icon about the experience."It was very exciting!" she replied, "The Queen was lovely."We were told not to address her unless we were addressed."She was up in a box and she came down on stage after with Princess Anne."She also recalled meeting the royal family in her 2010 memoir Here We Go Again: My Life in Television.The film star specifically remembered her interaction with the 86-year-old Queen Mother."The ladies all dropped a small curtsy as she approached," she wrote."I happened to be the last one in our foursome, and after she greeted Bea and Rue and Estelle, as she got to me, she indicated the scantily clad Rockettes behind us and said to me: 'Aren’t they beautiful girls?'""I curtsied, and replied, 'Yes, and such lovely bodies.'"Betty added: "She lit up with a radiant smile that belied her eighty-six years and replied: 'Oh, yes.

Lovely bawdies.'"The actress sadly died aged 99 on New Years Eve last year, just weeks before turning 100.She had celebrated a nine-decade-long career in show-business and to honour her work, a NBC one-off special, which aired this morning in the US, saw a host of celebrities come together to celebrate the life of the TV and film star.Cher was among those who paid tribute to the actress and comedian by performing a new version of Thank You for Being a Friend, the theme tune to Golden Girls, which she taped on the original Golden Girls stage in Hollywood.Ahead of the show's premiere, Cher shared the clip on her social media accounts, with the caption: "Every Friend is Golden."Taking to.