Britain's Got Talent winners' title back in 2009, but a meeting with the Queen at the subsequent Royal Variety Show left him a little tongue-tied and terrified of saying the wrong thing.
While the likes of Lady Gaga, who dressed in a red latex ensemble for the occasion, seemed to have no fears, Perri freely admitted he was petrified."Meeting the Queen is quite scary actually - very cool, don't get me wrong, but scary," he confessed."Obviously it was a prize for winning Britain's Got Talent to perform at the Royal Variety [Show] - and I thought I was really, really, really excited..."However then it struck him - he didn't know what he was supposed to say.During the big moment, with TV camera flashbulbs lighting up all around him, it occurred to him that "you need to speak to her a certain way"."I don't even know what I'm supposed to say - it's 'Ma'am' like 'Jam' instead of 'Ma'am' [like Marm]," he elaborated."You can't say [the latter] because you've not met her before - and I was a kid."I was like 'Oh my God, I'm gonna get it wrong and get rugby tackled by some kind of security' - but luckily it went all right.
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