Dolly Parton turned down tea with Catherine, Princess of Wales to advertise her rock album.
Dolly Parton was too busy together with her ‘9 to five’ to slot in tea with a royal
The 77-year-old music legend was gutted to should skip assembly with the 41-year-old royal – who’s the spouse of future king Prince William – however her promotion schedule for her star-studded LP ‘Rockstar’ was too jam-packed to slot in tea, even with royalty.
Talking to Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio 2, she spilled: “This time, Lordy, I even bought invited to have tea with Kate.
“And I felt so dangerous… I couldn’t even go! That they had all these things arrange.”
Nonetheless, she’s hopeful to be invited once more.
Dolly continued: “And certainly one of lately I’m going to get to try this… That might be nice!”
The ‘9 to five’ hitmaker wasn’t keen to surrender promotion alternatives, including: “She [Catherine] wasn’t going to advertise my rock album, so I needed to say no.”
The ‘Jolene’ hitmaker beforehand carried out on the late Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, and a few years later, she admitted to being scared of curtsying incorrectly.
She instructed Insider: “Though it’s important to do the protocol, it’s important to bow and all that, I might inform that she did not care about that. That is simply one thing she needed to do.
“And if someone made a mistake, it was okay.”
Regardless of being “scared to dying” of mucking it up, Dolly discovered the monarch to be “very heat, very candy”.
Dolly added: “Simply assembly the Queen of England, simply to satisfy a queen, it was wonderful.”