Kimberley Walsh’s unbelievable royal meeting

OHMYGOSSIP — Kimberley Walsh says her meeting with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth after the Royal Variety Performance in November 2012 was “bizarre” and dream-like.

Kimberley Walsh says meeting Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was “unbelievable”.

The Girls Aloud singer and her bandmates – Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Sarah Harding – met the monarch at the Royal Variety Performance in November 2012 was such a “bizarre” experience, she felt as though she was dreaming.

Recalling the meeting after the performance – one of the group’s first after returning from a three-year hiatus – Kimberley, 31, explained: “I’ve seen the queen before, but I’d never had a personal meeting. It was one of those unbelievable things to tick off the life list. She was so sweet.

“She asked us if we got back together for the Royal Variety Performance. We were kind of life, ‘Yeah, just for you … ‘

“Then she said, ‘This floor mustn’t be very easy for you girls to dance on.’ I went home afterwards and was like, ‘Did I just dream that?!’ It was bizarre.”

After growing up with her parents John and Diane and three siblings Amy, Sally and Adam in Bradford, West Yorkshire, having little money Kimberly owes her “hard work” as a teenager to where she is now – crediting her “ambition” for achieving so much in her life.

She continued to Britain’s Cosmopolitan magazine: “Growing up, we didn’t really have any money, and I remember discovering that you could work and earn money yourself.

“I’d do double shifts at my waitressing job – it was worth it for the money. Hard work has got me where I am. If I didn’t have that ambition I wouldn’t have achieved what I have.”