Watch: Cate Blanchett reflects on having lunch with late Queen Elizabeth.

Cate Blanchett has recently recalled having her lunch with Queen Elizabeth during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

On August 7, The New Boy actress opened up eating lunch with late Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. “I had lunch at the palace,” said the 55-year-old.

When Andy asked why she was invited, the Carol star responded, “I do not know. The head of the fire brigade was there and Helen Fielding — not the novelist — the scientist, was there.”

“I thought maybe because I played her ancestor Queen Elizabeth I,” she continued. During the show, Andy also asked whether late Queen had watched Cate’s 1998 movie Elizabeth, where she played Queen Elizabeth I, the actress quipped, “It became very clear that she had not!”

Cate previously discussed about her interaction with the late Prince Philip back in 2018.

Speaking to UK talk show host Jonathan Ross, she said, “There were 12 of us, and I couldn’t work out for the life of me why I’d been invited.”