CORONATION Street actor William Roache meets King Charles as he is made an OBE.
The 90-year-old — Ken Barlow in the ITV soap — said they chatted about their respective workloads during the Windsor Castle investiture.
He said: “Charles was lovely — very friendly. He said, ‘Not still working are you?’. I said, ‘Yes, just had two ex-girlfriends on the show’.
“He said, ‘Oh that must have been work’, and I said, ‘May I wish you a long and joyful reign, sir?’.
“And he said, ‘Thank you, that will be a lot of work, too’.”
Roache also added: “I love the royal family – I met the Queen about seven times.
“Charles is really, really friendly and more easy-going possibly in a sense.
“But the Queen was even – when she came (to visit the Coronation street set) less than a year ago – she always listened, she was attentive she was on the ball, and didn’t miss a trick.
“She was very bright.
“And they always love the humour, all of them, which I like.
“I’m very fond of the royal family.”
Roache has played Ken in Coronation Street since the soap’s first episode in 1960, gaining him the world record for the longest-serving TV actor in a continuous role.
