Lily Collins says she snatched a bouquet of flowers away from Princess Diana and threw a toy telephone at Prince Charles' head as a toddler

• Lily Collins told James Corden that she often misbehaved around the royals as a child.
• She said she once snatched flowers that she had originally gifted Princess Diana.

Lily Collins said she misbehaved around the British royal family as a toddler, recalling the time she snatched a bouquet of flowers away from Princess Diana.

During an appearance on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" on Tuesday, the actress said she spent a lot of time with the royals due to her father Phil Collins' work with The Prince's Trust Foundation.

Corden showed Collins a photo of her handing flowers to the late princess, to which Collins responded: "I'm giving Diana flowers, but the second she tried to take them I pulled them back."

"So, as you can imagine, all the air was sucked out of the room. But then again, I was wearing a cute dress, so who's really going to punish me there?" she added.

The "Emily in Paris" star went on to recall the time she was playing with Prince Charles and threw a toy telephone at his head.

"You were just hanging out with the royal family all the time?" Corden responded.

Collins' father, the musician Phil Collins, is a celebrity ambassador for Prince Charles' charity, The Prince's Trust Foundation.

The charity, which was launched 1976, aims to help young people aged between 11 and 30 to "find the tools and confidence to try free courses and start careers," the website states.