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Jamie Lee Curtis missed her chance to meet Princess Diana and the reason is a bit embarrassing.
The Golden Globe nominated actress, 64, told the Apple Fitness+ podcast Time to Walk the near miss happened in 1995, when she was shooting the movie Fierce Creatures with John Cleese and Kevin Klein in the UK when she got word the Princess and sons William and Harry were going to visit the set.
Unfortunately, when the Royals arrived, Jamie was answering the call of nature.
Missed chance: Jamie Lee Curtis missed her chance to meet Princess Diana when she was in the UK in 1995 and the reason is a bit embarrassing
'We had been told that day that Princess Diana and her children were going to come to visit and I admired her so much. We shot all morning, and when we took a tea break, for me, it was a pee break, I jumped in a golf cart and drove the two miles back to the dressing room,' she said.
'I'm in my dressing room peeing when there was a pounding on the door, "Princess Diana is here!'''
The actress, whose husband Christopher Guest holds a hereditary British peerage as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, explained she didn't feel it was appropriate to run after Diana when she returned to set, so she wrote her a note explaining the situation and had it delivered to the Royal's apartment at Kensington Palace.
'It said, "I'm so sorry we didn't get to meet. I was very much looking forward to it as I admire you greatly. Unfortunately, nature called, and they don't give me many breaks, so I chose nature over you, not knowing that you
