Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle's wedding dressmaker says she tripped over Prince Philip when she was a child and he wasn't fazed by it

• Chloe Savage helped make both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle's wedding gowns.
• Decades earlier, she ran into Prince Philip - literally - while chasing pigs in Barbados.
• "I fell and he picked me up, dusted me off, and said, 'Pigs went that way,'" Savage told Insider.

Decades before she helped make the wedding dresses worn by his famous granddaughters-in-law, Chloe Savage ran into Prince Philip - literally.

Savage, who did the embroidery work on both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle's iconic wedding gowns, told Insider that she tripped over the Duke of Edinburgh when she was just 6 years old.

The future dressmaker was chasing pigs in Barbados when she had her first encounter with a royal.

"We were chasing piglets, I can't remember why, and I fell and he picked me up, dusted me off, put me on my feet, and said, 'Pigs went that way,'" Savage recalled.

"Being only a child, I hadn't a clue who he was," she added.

Savage said Prince Philip was on the Caribbean island to visit her uncle Richard, who ran the Duke of Edinburgh's Award program in Barbados.

Prince Philip created the program in 1956 to challenge "young people in Great Britain and other parts of the Commonwealth to attain standards of achievement and endeavor in a wide variety of active interests," according to the royal family's Instagram page.

The program currently operates in 140 countries. In 2016, Kensington Palace revealed that Kate Middleton had completed the Duke of Edinburgh's Award when she was a teen. She received the gold award, which is the program's highest honor and was presented to recipients by Prince Philip himself.

"He found his own path, and created a role of his own," Savage said of Prince Philip, who died on Friday. He was 99 years old.

Many years after that encounter in Barbados, Savage would also meet the Duchess of Cambridge during a fitting for her wedding dress.

"She's so incredibly normal," Savage told Insider. "Where I live in Bristol isn't far from Prince Charles' estate, and he has a reputation for being uppity. But Kate is so normal."

Savage helped appliqué all the lace to Middleton's gown and shoes, and also worked on her blue silk and white lace garter. She also helped with the embroidery on Markle's 16-foot veil.

While Savage doesn't have a clear favorite when it comes to Middleton and Markle's iconic wedding dresses, she loves how each gown "symbolized who they are."

"Kate's was beautiful handmade lace, it was absolutely divine to work with," Savage said. "It was demure and very clean, but she's not a flashy person - if you know what I mean."

"Meghan's is more flashy, off-the-shoulder was far more risque," she added. "But then she's a risk-taker by comparison. It showcases their personalities."