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Beloved actor Dame Joanna Lumley looked back to the moment that she was officially made a Dame , admitting that she struggled to maintain her composure.

While she has scaled the heights of her profession down the decades with appearances in hugely successful films and TV shows, it was probably playing Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous that brought her worldwide fame.

However, despite being part of some of the most star-studded casts and mixing with some of the biggest names in showbiz down the years, it was when she was faced with meeting royalty that she began to "choke up" .

After receiving the news by post in December 2021 that she was set to be given a Damehood during the 2022 New Year’s Honours, during a recent chat with Chris Evans on his Virgin Radio Breakfa

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