Lulu lad goes from royal classmate to impersonator
Pop star Lulu’s son Jordan Frieda was at Eton with Prince William and this week he plays the Royal heir in a US TV film.
He recalled asking a new pupil at the public school to take away his plates.
“I walked away and thought ‘Wow, the future king of England has just cleaned my plate,”’ Frieda, 25, told the New York Daily News today.
“You would have never had that happen 50 years ago.”
Shot in Dublin this summer, the two hour film follows Prince William’s life from the 1997 death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, to his days at Eton and St Andrews University.
Frieda, who appeared in Band of Brothers, said that playing the prince was “wicked” but admitted he was a bit “apprehensive” when first approached about the role.
“The last thing I wanted to do was to make something that was actually going to cause these guys more trouble.”
The film includes a scene where William spends the night of his 16th birthday drunk at a local pub and another where he and a group of friends break into the palace’s wine cellar and drink champagne.
“If the Royal Family watch it – and I’m sure they will – I would hope that William dismisses the factual inaccuracies and understands this is a story which is sympathetic to him,” said Frieda, whose father is John Frieda, the hair-care millionaire.
“It’s about building the guy up and showing a human, more realistic side.”
Having gone to school with the prince helped his research, said Frieda, who bumped into William only a few times while at Eton.
“You didn’t make a fuss over anyone,” Frieda recalled. “He was pretty much left to get along. No one ever talked about it. It was just understood.”
