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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth snubbed BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw.

The 88-year-old monarch met the ‘Radio 1 Breakfast Show’ host, known as ‘Grimmy’, while opening the BBC’s new Broadcasting House in London’s West End last year, but he claims she ignored him when he broke protocol by speaking to her before he’d been acknowledged.

Nick said: "The Queen did not like me. I was told, ‘Don’t speak to her unless she speaks to you.’

"But I was also told she would speak to me, and she didn’t. It went on like this for a while, so I went, ‘You all right? You having a nice day?’

"She just pulled a face at me.

"It was basically just me staring at the Queen after that."

However, the 29-year-old radio presenter admits that the Queen of England isn’t the only person who has taken a dislike to him during his career, as he claims he also received a cold reception from ‘Maleficent’ actress Angeline Jolie.

He told the Daily Star newspaper: "She was very cold.

"I went to interview her and she was looking at me as if to say, ‘And what are you doing here asking questions?’"

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