Dame Shirley Bassey just broke protocol in front of King Charles during a special moment and she reacted with an ‘instinctive’ move.
Meeting a member of the Royal Family is far from an everyday occurrence so it’s perhaps no surprise that a few protocols might be missed here and there. Dame Shirley Bassey has admitted she forgot one when she received her prestigious Order of the Companions of Honour on 9th July in recognition of her services to music. The Welsh singer was invested with this honour by King Charles himself in a ceremony at Windsor Castle and she was so nervous that instead of doing a small curtsy of greeting to the monarch, she grabbed his hand instead. According to Express.co.uk, Shirley explained that she’d realised in the moment that she’d forgotten the curtsy and reaching for his hand was "instinctive".
