Henry Winkle r’s visit across the pond in 2023 was a trip to remember thanks to Queen Camilla . “We were invited to Ascot, the royal races,” Winkler, 78, explained to People in an interview published on Monday, August 12. “You heard about it in My Fair Lady , you hear about it all through history, and we were invited.
” Winkler and his wife, Stacey Weitzman , were making a stop in England — as well as Ireland and Scotland — while promoting his 2023 memoir, Being Henry . Winkler noted that King Charles III and Camilla, 77, “arrive[d] in an open carriage pulled by these incredible horses.” Afterward, they had a “three-course lunch,” where he received a request.
“Then all of a sudden, a rumor or a buzz goes through the room: ‘The Queen wants to meet Henry.’ So we walk down onto the paddock onto the green, and all of a sudden, these 12 men in forest green cutaways march out,” he said. “She comes in white in the middle of them and walks up.
I tip my hat, and I talk to her like she was my Aunt Liz.” Winkler noted there was “no disconnect” and “no royalty,” adding, “There is just this lovely woman who knows about my children’s books, the Detective Duck series.” The annual event features several horse races taking place at the Ascot Racecourse in England over a week long period.
During each morning of the Royal Ascot, members of the royal family arrive in a procession with horse-drawn carriages. For this year’s event in June, several r.