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A royal occasion for Royle Liz

Updated on 10 July 2009

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Royle Family star Liz Smith received the royal seal of approval - but the Prince of Wales admitted his relief that his relatives were nothing like her fictional family.

Charles told the 87-year-old, who played the ailing Nana in the hit show, as he presented her with an MBE that the sofa-bound TV characters were "nothing like my family, thank God".

Smith, who only became a household name in her 50s, said: "Everything happens to me late in life - nothing happened early, I just struggled on."

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