James Veysey/Shutterstock Miles Teller
Year: 2022 Offense: During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Teller revealed that the cast received a list of "dos and don'ts" when it to came to interacting with Prince William and Kate Middleton at Top Gun: Maverick 's London premiere in May. "There's a lot of etiquette and I had a sheet so I wouldn't f–k it up," he joked.
But that is exactly what he ended up doing.
"Right off the bat I messed up," he admitted. "You're not supposed to extend your hand right off the bat unless they do. But I felt the vibe, so I'm like, 'I'm going in, I'm going in.'"
Teller continued, "To their credit, they were very disarming. I was lost. Prince William's eyes…Kate was beautiful and cordial, but with William—I don't know, I blacked out."
Tim Graham Picture Library/Getty Images Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell
Year: 1997 Offense: In one of the '90s most iconic pop culture moments, The Spice Girls star caused a commotion when she allegedly pinched King Charles III ' butt at the premiere of Spice World .
But Halliwell set the record straight in 2016, clarifying that she "patted" his bum.
"Patting him on the bottom was against royal protocol but we're all human," she told The Times. "There was a lot of nervous energy…young women, happy antics."
Shutterstock Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie
Year: 2016 Offense: While filming Suicide Squad together, Delevingne dared Robbie to prank-call Prince Harry , a challenge she reluctantly accepted.
"I said, 'We can't prank-call royalty,' but anyway we did,'" Robbie told The Sun in 2018, "and he was so cool with it."
Shutterstock Tom Hiddleston
Year: 2016 Offense: While people speculated that the Marvel star broke the rules when he hugged Queen Consort Camilla at a charity event, a spokesperson for Clarence House confirmed to People that there was no breach in protocol.
"I think she quite enjoyed it!" the spokesperson said, noting that Hiddleston's meeting with Charles' wife was a "warm moment" and that the pair "got on very well and had a very nice chat together."
Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage Allison Janney
Year: 2018 Offense: The Oscar winner broke several royal rules when she met at William and Kate at the BAFTA Film Awards. Not only was Janney barefoot, she also called the then-pregnant Duchess an affectionate nickname.
"I just told her that I was in bare feet and…she should take her shoes off 'cause she's pregnant," Janney recalled on The Late Late Show . "It was an awkward moment. As I did, I called her 'honey' and that might not have been royal etiquette."
PA Images/INSTARimages.com Ed Sheeran
Year: 2017 Offense: The "Bad Habits" singer made a, well, bad move when he was awarded with an MBE by King Charles.
"Apparently, I did a big faux pas," Sheeran later told NBC. "I shook his hand and then grabbed it and you're not meant to do that."
Chris Jackson – WPA Pool/Getty Images Michelle Obama
Year: 2009 Offense: In her 2018 memoir Becoming , the former first lady detailed the time she broke royal protocol while meeting Queen Elizabeth II , revealing that her majesty didn't seem to mind the slip-up.
"Forget that she sometimes wore a diamond crown and that I'd flown to London on a presidential jet; we were two tired ladies oppressed by our shoes," Obama wrote of their first meeting in April 2009. "I then did what's instinctive to me anytime I feel connected to a new person, which is to express my feelings outwardly. I laid a hand affectionately across her shoulder."
with ere two tired ladies oppressed by our shoes," Obama wrote of their first meeting in April 2009. "I then did what's instinctive to me anytime I feel connected to a new person, which is to express my feelings outwardly. I laid a hand affectionately across her shoulder."
The moment was photographed and Obama received flack for the casual interaction. "I tried not to let the criticism rattle me," she wrote. "If I hadn't done the proper thing at Buckingham Palace, I had at least done the human thing."
Obama continued, "I daresay the Queen was okay with it, too, because when I touched her, she only pulled closer, resting a gloved hand lightly on the small of my back."
JOHNNY GREEN/AFP via Getty Images Lewis Hamilton
Year: 2009 Offense: After being presented with an MBE by Her Majesty, the seven-time Formula One champion attended a private lunch with Queen Elizabeth and … and the conversation took a wrong turn.
"I was excited and started to talk to her," Hamilton told Graham Norton in 2015. "But she said, pointing to my left, 'No you speak that way first, and I'll speak this way and then I'll come back to you."
But Hamilton did eventually get to speak with the queen, saying, "She is a sweet woman, and we talked about how she spends her weekends, houses and music."
Yui Mok/AP/REX/Shutterstock Anna Wintour
Year: 2018 Offense: The devil wears Prada and Wintour always wears sunglasses, even when sitting next to the queen in the front row at Richard Quinn 's fashion show. According to etiquette expert Grant Harrold, the Vogue editor-in-chief should have removed her signature shades while in the presence of royalty.
"Ms. Wintour should know that to wear sunglasses when talking to another person, with no medical reason, is unacceptable," Harrold told the Press Association. "She should have removed them before being in the presence of the Queen, let alone in discussion."