Australian Idol host Ricki-Lee Coulter shares unexpected run-in with …

Ricki-Lee Coulter has shared about her unexpected encounter with Prince Harry at a London pub.

The Australian Idol host said she was surprised to see security personnel entering the venue when she was having drinks with her friends.

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Following the prince's arrival, she revealed that she spoke with Harry for about five minutes while they were waiting for their drinks.

"I went to the bar and all of a sudden all these people started coming in, like Secret Service-looking people in suits," the 37-year-old said on the I've Got News For You podcast.

"I was like, 'What is this? What's happening?'" she said as whispers grew that royalty was coming.

The Aussie singer shared that Harry arrived as she was ordering her drink and they ended up speaking for several minutes while waiting at the bar.

"All of a sudden he just walked in and started talking to me at the bar while I was ordering my drink and I was like 'Oh my god!' and we chatted for maybe five minutes.

"We introduced ourselves and just talked ... it was so surreal and awesome. He was so down to earth and lovely and cool," she said.

The TV host did not disclose when the encounter took place.

Coulter's story comes as Prince Harry returns to the UK for the first time since his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth's funeral in September.

This time it is a solo trip without his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to make an appearance in a London court case against Associated Newspapers, alleging phone tapping and other invasions of privacy.

Elton John has also filed a lawsuit against the publication.

The hearing, expected to last four days, involves one of several cases Prince Harry has brought against the media.

Harry's presence at the High Court in London is a sign of the importance he places on the matter.

Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and the Mail Online, has said it "utterly and unambiguously" denies the allegations.

Meghan also won a privacy case against the publisher in 2021 for printing a letter she had written to her estranged father Thomas Markle.

- with AAP

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