Ed Sheeran talks about the infamous 2012 photo with the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Ed Sheeran talks about the infamous 2012 photo with the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Ed Sheeran talked about meeting the late Queen Elizabeth II during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week.

The photo was from Sheeran's performance at Queen's Jubilee in 2012 when the crooner saw success with his song, The A-Team, detailed to People.

The Shape of You singer recalled that when she was introduced to the late King, who died on September 8th, she initially didn't have much of a reaction.

"It's a fun picture because she was smiling when she met me. It was early in my career. I had released like a hit single, and I was playing her jubilee," Sheeran said in 2012. Said about the picture. "But I was with a famous comedian who's like, she made a joke when she was shaking my hand. So I got this picture of her I'm so happy to see.

As Sheeran told Colbert, it was his previous Golden Jubilee in 2002 that inspired him to become a performing musician. When he was just eleven years old, Sheeran saw Eric Clapton perform in concert on television and knew he wanted to emulate him.

"Eric Clapton comes on and does the first opening bit of 'Lila.' I'm like, 'What is that?' " Sheeran recalled. "And he finished the song, and I knew in that moment, I was like, 'I want to be like that. I want to get a guitar, and I want to sing on stage.' And 10 years later, that's what I'm playing, and I've only played ten years since."