LONDON —Silence for the queen, please. A troupe of street drummers , who were promoting a gay music festival, got a shock Saturday when Helen Mirren, below, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, emerged from a London theater to berate them for disrupting her show.
Mirren is starring in “The Audience,” a drama about the weekly meetings between the queen and Britain’s prime ministers over her 60-year reign.
“I’m afraid there were a few ‘thespian’ words used,” Mirren told the Daily Telegraph. “They got a very stern royal ticking off, but I have to say they were very sweet and they stopped immediately.”
“Not much shocks you on the gay scene,” parade organizer Mark McKenzie told the Daily Telegraph. “But seeing Helen Mirren dressed as the queen cussing and swearing and making you stop your parade — that’s a new one.”
