Kimberley Walsh 'wanted to kiss Prince Charles'

Kimberley Walsh has admitted that she was tempted to kiss Prince Charles when meeting him for a third time.

The Girls Aloud star co-presented The Prince's Trust Celebrate Success Awards with Steve Jones last week. Writing in her OK column, Walsh revealed that Prince Charles knew she and Cheryl Cole were from the girl group.

"Cheryl was also presenting an award so we had a quick catch-up. She looks so lovely and sun-kissed fresh back from LA," she said. "We were in the lineup and Prince Charles said to us, 'So we've got two of you here today!' It was funny that he even knew that we were part of Girls Aloud. He knows his stuff."

She continued: "It was scary presenting because we had the prince sitting right beside us so the pressure was on, but we threw in a few jokes about the royal wedding which luckily he laughed at.

"When you meet him he's so relaxed and warm that it makes you forget those formalities. I was probably way too overfriendly because we were chatting away like we were on first-name terms! I really like him, you get a real sense of who he is - that's important when you meet someone so powerful. He's our future king; it's crazy!"

However, she confessed that she did not risk offending the prince by embracing him further, adding: "I've met him three times now, so I'd like to have kissed him to greet him, but it might have overstepped the mark!

"I remember Geri Halliwell pinched his bum when the Spice Girls met him but I wouldn't do that - there's a certain level of respect and etiquette, and I couldn't do that in case I offended him!"

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