Not still working are you, Bill? Oh, me too

King jokes with Corrie Star, 90, at OBE event

- REBECCA SPEARE-COLE and MARK JEFFERIES

SOAP legend William Roache compared workloads with the King as he was handed his OBE yesterday. 

Tireless Bill holds the world record for the longest-serving TV actor in a continuous role, after playing Ken Barlow in Coronation Street since 1960.

The 90-year-old said: “Charles was lovely – very friendly. He said: ‘Not still working are you?’; I said: ‘Yes, I just had two ex-girlfriends on the show’.

“He said: ‘Oh, that must have been work’, and I said: ‘May I wish you a long and joyful reign, sir?’, and he said: ‘Thank you, that will be a lot of work too’.

“I love the Royal Family. I met the Queen about seven times. Charles is really, really friendly and more easygoing, possibly in a sense.