Dame Helen Mirren has stormed out of a theatre dressed as the Queen to angrily confront a group of street drummers who she accused of disrupting her West End show.
The star, 67, left London's Gielgud Theatre at the end of the first act of The Audience, still dressed in pearls and tiara.
She marched over to a group of around 25 drummers, who were promoting a gay music festival, and allegedly used several expletives as she angrily ticked them off.
Dame Helen later admitted using a few "thespian" words, but added that she felt "rotten" afterwards.
She told The Daily Telegraph: "I'm afraid there were a few 'thespian' words used.
"They got a very stern royal ticking off, but I have to say they were very sweet and they stopped immediately.
"I felt rotten, but on the other hand they were destroying our performance so something had to be done.
"The drumming just slowly got louder and louder and then settled right outside the stage door."
After struggling through the final emotional scene of the first act, in which the Queen is told she is going to lose the royal yacht Britannia, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
Dame Helen recently won an Olivier for the role Dame Helen explained: "I was so upset from struggling through the scene with Paul (Ritter) that I literally walked straight off stage, straight up the stairs and straight out the stage door.
"(I) banged my way through the crowd who were watching and said 'Stop, you've got to stop right now' - only I might have used stronger language than that.
"They were very sweet and stopped the minute they knew I wasn't just a batty old woman haranguing them on the streets of Soho on a Saturday night."
She said she now wants to track down the performers to invite them to see the play.
James Horrocks, speaking on behalf of the organisers of the As One In The Park festival which the drummers were advertising, admitted the music was "very loud" but added that "the walls of the theatre were very thin".
He told Sky News Dame Helen "turned the air blue" with her language and those who witnessed her rant were "so shocked".
However, her offer of tickets to the play was "very sweet", he said.
Rufus Gerrard-Wright, who plays David Cameron in the play, said the confrontation was "breathtaking".
Writing on Twitter, he said: "You should have seen Helen. She came out in full Queen costume and shouted at the drummers. Honestly. It was breathtaking."
The Audience is a play about the monarch's private weekly meetings with various prime ministers at Buckingham Palace.
Last week the role earned Dame Helen an Olivier award for best actress.
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