10-06-2025
Comedian reveals he accidentally poured 'scalding hot tea' on VERY famous royal while working as a waiter - leading her to let out a 'blood curdling scream'
Princess Anne let out a 'blood curdling scream' when scalding hot water was accidentally poured down the back of her legs at a 'fancy event', a comedian has revealed.
Daniel Foxx told Mel Giedroyc on her Where There's a Will There's a Wake podcast that he once had a not-so-favourable encounter with the Princess Royal while working as a waiter.
In a clip from the episode, the comedian says: 'I burned Princess Anne once.
'I used to work as a waiter when I was at university, and I was carrying a pot of hot tea at some very fancy event.'
Foxx explains he 'span too quickly' around, and poured 'truly, scaldingly boiling hot tea all down the back of Princess Anne's bare legs'.
He says she let out a 'blood curdling scream', adding that 'maybe a swear came out'.
'She leapt into the air. screamed, turned around. Obviously everyone in this function, I think it was the Woodland Trust or something, turned to stare at me.
'I was like "I'm so sorry" and thankfully a man thought he had knocked me - he hadn't - but he took the blame.'
Foxx says the man explained that it was 'just water', to which Princess Anne replied: 'Yes, well it was rather warm.'
It is perhaps no surprise that Princess Anne was victim of a hot water mishap, considering how many functions she attends as the UK's hardest working royal.
In fact, when it came to marking her 75th birthday year, Princess Anne had only one request - to host as many charities as possible for a special gathering at Buckingham Palace.
With 400 patronages to her name, the royal residence was packed for the 'charities forum'.
'This personifies what Her Royal Highness cares about,' a palace source said. 'She didn't want to do anything for her birthday but bring her charities together to hear more about their work and how she can help them.'
The princess, wearing a sand coloured skirt suit, arrived at today's event after Colonel John Boyd, her Private Secretary, welcomed guests to the Palace's ballroom, telling them: 'There has been a significant amount of interest in HRH's 75th birthday celebrations.
'As you are aware the princess has given decades of time and support to more than 400 charities and patronages.
'It probably won't come as a surprise, given HRH's commitment to you all, that the way the Princess wants to celebrate this milestone is to replicate what she's done on previous significant birthdays and hold this charities forum again to once again understand how she can help you, at a time when the third sector is facing unprecedented challenges and transformations.'
In her own speech to more than 216 guests from 111 different organisations, Anne was typically self-effacing, telling them hilariously: 'I'm not here because this was my choice.
'You very kindly asked me to become patron of your organisations, so it's an honour for me to have all of you here.'
She also spoke about 'the pleasure I get from visiting and finding out a bit more about what you do.'
