“Danny Kaye Denies Calling Princess Margaret ‘Honey’”
Oxnard Press-
LONDON—Danny Kaye today denied reports he had called Princess Margaret “Honey.”
The allegation was made by Sunday Pictorial columnist Rex North who headlined his outraged dispatch “H.R.H. Honey.”
Even the princess’ best friends call her “Your Royal Highness” or “Ma’am”—including her male escorts.
But columnist North said comedian Kaye greeted her backstage at the Palladium with “Hello, Honey, I didn’t expect to see you back here.”
The Pictorial added: “H.R.H. Honey . . . taken aback . . . swallowed once or twice and countered, if a little limply, with ‘Hello Danny.’”
Not so, Kaye said today. He said it was untrue that he greeted his royal admirer with such a familiar word as honey—“I know better than that. I call the princess ‘Ma’am.’”
“Why they drag things up like that I don’t know,” he said. “It’s not funny.”
Not only that, he said, but “these silly rumors annoy me.”