Barbra Streisand Reveals Prince Charles Sent Her Flowers Before He Met Princess Diana

Barbra Streisand has disclosed she had a sweet interaction with Prince Charles before he even met Princess Diana. Her revelation comes after the prince's recent comment about the singer being "dazzling" when they were young.

Reminiscing her "special memories" with the Prince of Wales, Streisand told U.K. presenter Ross King, she was recording in San Diego in 1974 when she was introduced to the prince, who was 26 at that time and serving in the Royal Navy.

"It was so sweet," she said of the experience. "He asked to meet me. So he came to the recording studio. I offered him a sip of tea and I thought, 'They didn't have to test me for poison or something? No,'" she recalled.

"We became friends, and I loved spending some time at Highgrove for a weekend fundraiser and going through his gardens," Streisand continued.

She also shared how Prince Charles surprised her with a bunch of flowers once. She was staying at a London hotel when she found fresh-cut flowers on a table in her assistant's room. When she asked her assistant who the sender was, she answered, "A fan called Charles."

"And I said, 'Really? Let me see the note,' and there was his seal. And they weren't like from a florist because they were from his gardens and it's a different look," she said, adding her assistants had actually mistaken the future king for a fan. "It was so funny, I thought. That's Prince Charles!" she told her assistant.

Streisand also recalled what she quipped when the royal, who is now 72, once came to her show. "I had a very funny line on stage when he came to see my show. I said, 'You know, if I played my cards right, I could have wound up being the first Jewish princess!'" she said.

The award-winning singer emphasized that her interaction with Prince Charles happened years before he met his late wife Diana, whom he married in 1981. Their divorce was finalized in 1996, one year before the Princess of Wales died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.