Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke breaks protocol meeting Prince William

Emilia Clarke is one of the most recognisable women in the world, thanks to her stint as Daenerys on Game Of Thrones.

But, despite being in one of the most popular TV shows around, it seems the 31-year-old managed to get seriously star-struck while meeting Prince William recently.

In fact, the actress made a huge faux pas when being introduced to Kate Middleton’s husband, during an event at Buckingham Palace.

And it’s all kinds of awkward.

During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, she opened up about her chat with the Duke of Cambridge explaining: ‘It is a frightening thing going to the palace. There’s a whole… there’s a thing.

‘When you’re there, I was just relaxing and they [said], “Prince William is coming,” so I was like, “Oh cool, great”. I’m really relaxed and everything is going to be fine.

‘They were like, “You can’t turn your back,” so I was like, “No worries,” and they said: “You have to address him as your Royal Highness”. Then after that you can call him Prince William and there’s lots of formalities that you need to kind of adhere to’.

So far, so good…

But when she came face to face with the 36-year-old, it all went very wrong.

‘For whatever reason, maybe because I was so scared, I couldn’t manage to get out ‘Your Royal Highness’,” she continued

‘So it was kind of like “ra… ra…”, it was pretty much all I managed,’.

To be fair, if we met Prince William, we’re sure we would react in the exact same way.

Emilia also revealed her upset at not being invited to the Royal wedding earlier this year – despite not really knowing either Prince Harry or Meghan Markle.

‘I genuinely, sadly was not at the Royal Wedding, but I feel like I really should have been,’ she added.

‘I was there in spirit.’