When the late Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe in October 1956, the meeting of the two most famous women in the world at the time didn’t go as smoothly as expected. “Apparently, the queen said to friends at the palace that she thought Marilyn was lovely, but she felt sorry for her,” Michelle Morgan, author of When Marilyn Met the Queen, told an outlet. “She had licked all of her lipstick off,” Morgan added about Marilyn, born Norma Jeane Moretensen. “When you see the footage, you see the queen coming up the line. Marilyn is licking her lipstick off because she’s nervous. And the queen pic…
