British actor recalls one anecdote Kate Middleton warned him never to retell
With the Christmas break being in full swing a British actor has just come forward to hail Kate Middleton as the ‘savior’ of the Firm.
The actor in question, Christopher Biggins shared everything in a chat with The Telegraph and explained that he “wasn’t’ always a big fan” of the future King of England.
“I don’t know why, but I wasn’t. But recently I did the Royal Variety Show,” he explained. “I met him afterwards, and said: ‘I must tell you that this theater, the Royal Albert Hall, is where years ago I took your mother [Princess Diana] to see Liza Minnelli, and your mother was just the most wonderful, incredible woman.’ And he was really quite touched. He was charming.”
“And then Catherine, who I think is going to be the savior of the Royal Family, came over and we talked about her taking the children to [watch a] pantomime,” he also recalled. According to the actor “she was just walking away when she came back and said, ‘Actually, when I was a young girl I played Principal Boy [in a pantomime].’”
According to the actor the character she ended up admitting to playing was Dick Whittington, and to that he said, “’Ah yes, I’ve heard of your Dick!’ And she put her finger up and said, ‘If you tell anyone that story…’” he said before cutting off abruptly.
What is pertinent to mention about this, is that the role is a traditional British pantomime which portrays a male hero but is almost always played by a young woman that cross dresses, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary.
Story of Dick Dick Whittington:
According to Britannica, “Dick Whittington (died March 1423, London, Eng.) was an English merchant and lord mayor of London who became a well-known figure in legend and traditional pantomime.”
“Popular legend makes Dick Whittington a poor orphan employed as a scullion by a rich London merchant. He ventures his only possession, a cat, as an item to be sold on one of his master’s trading ships. Ill-treated by the cook, Dick then runs away, but just outside the city he hears the prophetic peal of bells that seems to say “Turn again, Whittington, lord mayor of great London” (or ‘Thrice lord mayor of London’).”
“He returns to find that his cat has been sold for a great fortune to a Moorish ruler whose dominions are plagued with rats. Whittington marries his master’s daughter, succeeds to the business, and subsequently becomes thrice lord mayor of London. The first recorded reference to the tale appears in 1605.”
