Kerri-Anne Kennerley dishes out right royal advice
KERRI-ANNE Kennerley has this advice for those meeting Prince Charles and Camilla at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
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KERRI-ANNE Kennerley has some advice for those meeting Prince Charles and Camilla at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games: come prepared.
Kennerley, who arrives in Queensland today as a guest for Longines at this week’s opening ceremony, met Charles and his late wife Princess Diana while she was hosting Good Morning Australia in 1988.
Kennerley said, as always when meeting members of the royal family, topics of conversation weren’t easy to come by.
“We (she and Princess Diana) talked about driving Leopard tanks. An obvious topic,” she said. “Basically they put everybody into a room and once the doors close, nobody gets in. If you’re late, bad luck.
“They have royals come in – Diana at one end, Charles at the other. You’re standing there going, ‘What on earth do we talk about?’ I’d seen some vision of her in Germany some weeks before literally driving Leopard tanks and I had driven a Leopard tank so that was our topic of conversation.”
Prince Charles will attend this year with Camilla. “I’ve heard Camilla is actually a very down-to-earth woman,” Kennerley said.
The television veteran said one of her best memories was broadcasting GMA in Brisbane when the Queen closed the Commonwealth Games in 1982.
“It was pretty cool,” she said. There’s a lot of history attached to it.
“I’m really looking forward to it this year because I love the Gold Coast and I just think it’s such a fabulous event.”
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