LA – The New Boy actress Cate Blanchett recently talked about her lunch with Queen Elizabeth; She said: “I had lunch at the palace. The head of the fire brigade was there and Helen Fielding, not the novelist, the scientist, was there.I thought maybe because I played her ancestor Queen Elizabeth I,” so was there. Then said Prince Philip asked if she could help him with his DVD player. When asked if she she did, she replied, “No, I did not. I’m not technical.”