Malala Yousafzai reveals mum told Prince Harry off with brutal one word comment as they posed for photo

The Pakistani activist who was treated in Birmingham after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban revealed her meeting with the royal hadn’t gone completely to plan

Malala Yousafzai revealed her mum had a big reaction to Prince Harry touching her(Image: BBC)

Malala Yousafzai has revealed her mum told Prince Harry off for touching her as they posed for a photograph.

The Pakistani activist for female education, who was treated in Birmingham after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012, revealed her mum had ‘shoved’ Prince Harry off her as they posed for a picture.

She said: “My mum was also very strict, she wanted me to stick to the Pakistani traditional culture.

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“So when I met Prince Harry we were taking a photo together and he put his arm around my shoulder and my mum goes up to him and she says ‘remove’.

“She just like shoves off his hand.”

She also revealed concerned relatives had phoned her parents after seeing her in photos with a ‘man’. Malala added: “Firstly I’m 17. Second that’s David Beckham.”

Malala is the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which she was awarded in 2014 at age 17 for her fight for the right of all children to education.

Appearing on The Graham Norton Show on Friday night to promote her memoir Finding My Way, she discussed how she had found out she had been awarded the huge honour.

“I was actually at school…and my deputy head teacher walked in and informed me I had won the Nobel Peace Prize,” she admitted.

“Then I finished my school day because if you win the Nobel Peace Prize for education you have to finish your school day.”

Malala revealed she had tried to fit in during her time at the University of Oxford, changing her clothes.

She said: “I knew that if I wore my traditional Shalwar Kameez, the Pakistani traditional outfit …I would stand out…so I wanted to wear jeans and jumpers, anything that’s just basical and normal.

“So I went on Google and searched casual style 2017 and then I searched Selena Gomez casual.”

She revealed the controversity that surrounded her new look when she was pictured rowing wearing skinny jeans, a bomber jacket and her headscarf.

“Walking back froom there someone took a picture of me wearing skinny jeans and I got this call from my parents telling me that they were really concerned because people were criticisng me for wearing skinny jeans,” she said.

“This is not a traditional outfit…somehow I am shaming the country. But i told my parents ‘I am not in college for some pilgrimage or some cultural represenation, I’m here as a student.”

Malala still has security around her all of the time, and was asked by host Graham Norton if that was for forever.

“So far, yes,” she revealed.

Discussing the assassination attempt, Malala said: “My life coompletely changed when I was only 11 years old. Extremists took over my home town.

“When they made the ban on girls education that’s when I started doing my activism because I knew I could not have a future without an education.

“Then they attempted to kill me, I survived that. I was moved to the UK for treatment, I had my surgeries here, I went to high school here.

“I felt so lucky that I went to college and completed my degree. That is the moment I thought that I won.”