{"id":200192,"date":"2025-10-20T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/vanessa-williams-reveals-what-king-charles-is-really-like\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:01:09","slug":"vanessa-williams-reveals-what-king-charles-is-really-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/vanessa-williams-reveals-what-king-charles-is-really-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Williams reveals what King Charles is really like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-10-20\" datetime=\"1760972469\" pubdate=\"\">20 October 2025<\/time>\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>                            <\/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<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/royal_family\/vanessa-williams-reveals-king-charles-really-like-1431674.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 October 2025 Vanessa Williams says King Charles came across as &#8220;down to earth&#8221; when they met. Photo: Getty Images 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[244,2885],"class_list":{"0":"post-200192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-king-charles","9":"tag-vanessa-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}