Angelina Jolie today defied her nerves to deliver a lecture on Women, Peace and Security in a new role at theLondon School of Economics.
The filmmaker and human rights advocate, 41, said she was ‘feeling butterflies’ before the lesson, beginning a new master’s course on the impact of war on women.
She embodied her new, visiting professor mantle perfectly, paring down her iconic Hollywood image in favour of a simple yet sophisticated longline coat.
Angelina told London’s Evening Standard: ‘I’m a little nervous, feeling butterflies. I hope I do well. This is very important to me.’
One starstruck attendee reassured the ‘nervous’ speaker by saying: ‘Ms. Jolie, you did wonderfully!’ while another simply said: ‘Incredible lecture by Angelina today’.
After the lecture, Angelina was joined by her son Maddox as they took the short trip from their lavish hotel to Buckingham Palace.
Dressed appropriately in a smart black evening dress and matching leather boots, Angelina looked typically elegant as they made their way towards a waiting car.
It is understood Angelina and Maddox were given a highly unusual private tour of Buckingham Palace, where no members of the royal family were present.
The actress addressed a class of students taking the same-titled postgraduate course, Women, Peace and Security – and her speech went down well with the class, who described the presentation as ‘wonderful’.
