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Barbra Streisand has recalled the special moment she once shared with Princess Diana as she details meeting the "wonderful" royal.
The singer has been opening up about a series of moments and memories from her life in her new memoir My Name Is Barbra and detailed how she once would have suffered a wardrobe malfunction but Diana came to her rescue. Barbra was attending the 1992 premiere of The Prince of Tides in London when the incident occurred.
The event was being held as a benefit for the AIDS Crisis Trust and Barbra shared how she was "impressed" by Diana's hands-on approach to her work to destigmatise HIV/AIDS. She reminisced about how the pair had been seated together during the film screening and how when she stood up and the zipper on her skirt had come open Diana came to her assistance.
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Diana and Barbra shared mutual appreciation for one another (Getty Images)She wrote: "The zipper on my skirt had come down a bit as I was sitting, and she noticed and quickly started to zip it up for me as I got to my feet. When I finally sat down, Diana turned to me and asked, ‘Do you know how wonderful you are?’ ”
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Barbra admitted that she was taken aback by the compliment as songwriter Marilyn Bergman had asked her the same questions at New York nightclub Bon Soir 30 years earlier. She said: “I certainly didn’t know it then. Did I know it now? I’m not sure…maybe a little. I thought Diana was wonderful. I wonder if she knew how wonderful she was."
Diana wasn't Barbra's only admirer in the Royal Family either - King Charles reportedly had a thing for her prior to his marriage to Diana in 1981. A report by The Times in July 2021 claimed that Charles had found Barbra "dazzling" as a young man.
Charles admitted finding Barbra 'dazzling' (Getty Images)Barbra later told Ross King: "It was so sweet." She then gave further details of how they had met in 1974 when he was serving in the Royal Navy and visited San Diego. She added: "He asked to meet me. So he came to the recording studio. I offered him a sip of tea and I thought, 'They didn't have to test me for poison or something? No.' "
She then described how "we became friends, and I loved spending some time at Highgrove for a weekend fundraiser and going through his gardens."
My Name Is Barbra is out now.