Barbra Streisand Dishes On Her Friendship With Prince Charles, Says She 'Loved Spending Some Time At Highgrove'
When royalty and Hollywood mix! Barbra Streisand got candid about her relationship with Prince Charles — and she couldn't say enough good things about the dad-of-two.
The two became pals when "he asked to meet me" in 1974 — years before Charles would marry Princess Diana — the singer recalled.
"So he came to the recording studio," she shared. "I offered him a sip of tea and I thought, 'They didn't have to test me for poison or something? No.'"
The two then "became friends, and I loved spending some time at Highgrove for a weekend fundraiser and going through his gardens," the actress noted.
Later on, the Funny Girl alum was staying in a hotel in London, and she noticed some fresh flowers.
"I said, 'Who sent me that?'" she recalled telling her assistant. "And she said, 'A fan called Charles.' And I said, 'Really? Let me see the note' — and there was his seal. And they weren't like from a florist because they were from his gardens and it's a different look."
Streisand's assistant "just mistook it for a fan. It was so funny, I thought. That's Prince Charles!"
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Earlier this year, Charles spoke highly of the Oscar winner.
“I have always been a great admirer of the incredibly versatile American actress and singer Barbra Streisand,” the prince said. “Back in 1974, when I was serving in the Royal Navy … as a young lieutenant in the frigate HMS Jupiter, we called into the United States navy’s base in San Diego, California … when I heard that she was currently making the film [Funny Lady, a sequel to Funny Girl] in the Warner Brothers Studios … I was lucky enough to visit the set and to meet her there.”
During a 2019 concert in Hyde Park, Streisand joked about what could have been, saying: “If I had played my cards right, I could have been the first Jewish princess.”