{"id":515803,"date":"2025-10-21T01:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515803\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:41:15","slug":"vanessa-williams-reveals-what-king-charles-is-really-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515803\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Williams reveals what King Charles is really like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        20 October 2025\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/vanessa-williams\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,vanessa-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanessa Williams<\/a> says King Charles came across as &#8220;down to earth&#8221; when they met.<\/p>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"main-image\" class=\"img-responsive thumbnail landscape img-stretch\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/photo-getty-images-aW1hZ2VzMS8yMDI1LzEwLzIwLzE3NjA5NDI4MzNjc.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Getty Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The former Desperate Housewives star had a brush with royalty at last year\u2019s Royal Variety Show in London. Reflecting on her time in the British capital\u2014where she\u2019s lived for the past two years &#8211; the American actress called meeting the \u201clovely\u201d monarch the highlight of her UK chapter so far.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusively talking to BANG Showbiz at the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards held at The Londoner Hotel, Leicester Square, London, on Sunday night (19.10.25), she said: &#8220;I did the Royal Variety Show last year, and after, we got a chance to meet him. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he was like, she replied:&#8221; Lovely, down to earth, personable, one-on-one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa portrays Miranda Priestly in the West End adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, and with eight shows a week, she confesses she relies on \u201cdouble tea bags\u201d to get through it.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;You mean like caffeine &#8211; for sure! I have double tea bags in my tea all of the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 62-year-old actress also spilled that she does her own makeup for the show, and is always joined by her pet pooch in her dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>\nAsked if she has any pre-show rituals, she said: &#8220;I always play music, do my own makeup, which we have to, my dog is with me, and he&#8217;s by my side. And then chat, gossip, find out what&#8217;s going on with everybody in the cast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20 October 2025 Vanessa Williams says King Charles came across as &#8220;down to earth&#8221; when they met. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519,125220],"class_list":{"0":"post-515803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-vanessa-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115409616325224501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}