Coronation Street legend Bill Roache meets King Charles as he’s handed OBE for services to acting
thesun.co.ukCORONATION Street actor William Roache meets King Charles as he is made an OBE. The 90-year-old — Ken Barlow in the ITV soap — said they chatted about their respective workloads during the Windsor Castle investiture.
He said: “Charles was lovely — very friendly. He said, ‘Not still working are you?’. I said, ‘Yes, just had two ex-girlfriends on the show’. “He said, ‘Oh that must have been work’, and I said, ‘May I wish you a long and joyful reign, sir?’. “And he said, ‘Thank you, that will be a lot of work, too’.” Roache also added: "I love the royal family - I met the Queen about seven times.
Read More on Bill Roache'Sir Bill' Happy Birthday Bill viewers have a demand for Coronation Street's William Roachewater a guy Corrie's William Roache is swapping cobbles for cruise ship with tell-all shows "Charles is really, really friendly and more easy-going possibly in a sense. "But the Queen was even - when she came (to visit the Coronation street set) less than a year ago - she always listened, she was attentive she was on the ball, and didn't miss a trick. "She was very bright. "And they always love the humour, all of them, which I like.
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