Ulrika Jonsson has used her latest column to revisit a fond memory involving Prince Edward.
The presenter and the Duke of Edinburgh were good friends in their younger years.
This led the now 59-year-old royal to bring her treats from Buckingham Palace, with the box they came in still treasured to this day.
The television star, 55, was battling glandular fever when she got an unexpected visit from His Royal Highness.
Ulrika branded his move “sweet” as she detailed how he arrived with his “entourage of security guards”.
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In her column entitled Useful Boxes Must Live On, the mother-of-four shared her “dismay” at the news about US company Tupperware.
The 77-year-old firm said has said there is “substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern”.
This led Ulrika to discuss her most important piece by them, saying she uses them “all the time”.
She wrote: “Somewhere in my mum’s house in some overpopulated cupboard in her kitchen is a piece of Tupperware from Buckingham Palace.”
It was when the columnist was 20, she suffered from the infectious Epstein-Barr virus, and Prince Edward wanted to help.
Ulrika continued: “I counted HRH Prince Edward, now the Duke of Edinburgh, as a friend – I was sick at home with glandular fever for many weeks.
“He sweetly came over (with his entourage of security guards) to bring me some homeopathic medicine which he hoped might help my recovery.”
She added in The Sun: “But most valuable of all, he brought me some summer pudding in a little Tupperware container because he knew it was my favourite.”
She then urged: “So, please, people preserve these little plastic tubs at all costs.”
Her comments come after Tupperware’s shares plunged nearly 50 per cent on Monday.
Ulrika has spoken about her “platonic” friendship with the royal previously, and in September again spoke of his visit to her in her hour of need.
Discussing the dessert he chose, she added to the same publication: “I’d mentioned that I loved it, at one of our dinners.
“When he left, my mother nearly fainted.”
