In Streisand’s case, it didn’t take long for Charles' crush to become a life-long friendship.
Streisand’s memoir details the musical icon’s first encounter with the prince in 1974.
So, I’m afraid I wasn’t as gracious as I should have been."
As for the pin-up poster?
That didn’t make it into their conversation.
Streisand wrote she had no idea that Prince Charles had a crush on her at the time.
Streisand said she would’ve been more nervous had she known.
“I couldn’t resist adding, ‘Who knows?
If I had been nicer to him, I could have been the first real Jewish princess!'”
The tongue-in-cheek bit became a mainstay of Streisand’s stage banter.
Streisand and the king still send one another birthday cards, often with hand-drawn illustrations and small gifts.
Something was going on, and [Princess] Diana knew all about it."
Per Andersen, this mid-1990s meeting startedCharles and Streisand’s rumored affair.
