Cate Blanchett’s touching encounter with Queen:

Many Australian stars paid tribute to the queen after her death at the age of 96, with stories surfacing about Her Majesty’s time in Down Under.

Many of the country’s A-listers have also paid tribute to Elizabeth II as Australia mourns the royal.

Footage of Cate Blanchett has also resurfaced revealing that she met the late Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, only to be asked how to fix their DVD player.

Appearing on ITV’s show The Jonathan Ross in 2018, the star revealed that she wondered if the Queen wanted to ask her to play her Oscar-winning role as her namesake, Queen Elizabeth I, when she received the invitation.

“There were 12 of us and I couldn’t understand all my life why I was invited,” she recalled. “Playing Queen Elizabeth and sitting next to her, I thought,” Maybe she has seen the film and wants to ask me for my interpretation. “

Referring to the Duke of Edinburgh, Cate, 53, said: “I sat next to him and he said,” Did I hear you are an actor? Well, I was given a DVD player for Christmas and I can’t tell if I put the green cord or the red cord. “

And I said “Sir, it’s not really my expertise.” I thought, ‘she invited me to lunch to tell me about her DVD player.’

It comes as filming resurfaced of the precious moment when a group of excited Aussie first-rate celebrities met the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 2011 prior to her royal tour Down Under.

Hugh Jackman, Elle Macpherson and Neighbors star Jason Donovan were among other Australian “royals” who enjoyed a reception with Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip.

Hugh, Jason and Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood all sported elegant black suits and ties for the lavish event.

Meanwhile, Elle looked dazed as she chatted with the other guests waiting for the meeting.

The supermodel was elegantly dressed in a beige flounced dress paired with a matching bag.

In the video, Her Majesty is seen glancing at the large group before joking: “I didn’t realize there were so many Australians.”

Marvel action star Hugh laughed at the queen’s joke and replied “oh yeah, we’re everywhere”.

He then told the queen that he hoped her upcoming royal visit to Australia would be “fantastic”.

Hugh was later named on the Queen’s birthday list in 2019 for “eminent service to the performing arts and the global community, as an advocate of poverty eradication.”

Britain is a country in mourning following the death of the beloved monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.

After 70 extraordinary years on the throne, the longest-lived royal in the country died “in peace” at the age of 96 on the Balmoral estate, surrounded by his family.