The Prince and the showgirl: Saucy secrets of HM's party

SAUCY singer Dillie Keane once scandalised Prince Charles by giving him a peek of her undergarments, but that didn’t stop her being invited for a repeat royal performance.

I can reveal that Dillie, 65, (pictured) performed at the Queen’s private dinner party to celebrate her and Prince Philip’s platinum wedding anniversary. The singer, part of the cabaret troupe Fascinating Aida, gave a solo performance at Windsor Castle on Monday night. She was accompanied on the piano by Michael Roulston, a composer with a passion for cabaret. Dillie specialises in humorous songs and satirical standup routines. Joanna Lumley was master of ceremonies at the bash, which was graced by an ice sculpture with the letters E and P interwined. Guests dined on langoustine and pheasant with a replica of the happy couple’s wedding cake for pudding. When Dillie performed in front of Charles at a charity

event in 2001, it was a lively affair. She reportedly gave HRH ‘a right royal view’ when she bent over a piano, revealing her underwear.

‘Contrary to what people say, I was not wearing big white knickers during my act,’ Dillie insisted after the event. ‘I had on a special pair of all-in-one tights. And I did not talk about underwear with the Prince after the show.’

HM’s parties are organised by her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Anson, whose firm Party Planners has arranged events for the Rolling Stones and Middle Eastern sheikhs.

I disclosed this month that the Queen chose to mark her platinum wedding anniversary with a low-key occasion for close friends and family, following the death of a number of her close friends.

Guests at Monday’s intimate dinner at Windsor Castle included Prince Philip’s German nephews, Prince Ludwig of Baden and Maximilian, Margrave of Baden.

The invitation was an olive branch, as Philip’s three surviving sisters were not invited to the Queen’s wedding in 1947 as they’d been married to Germans. ‘They minded terribly,’ one of the Queen’s relations told me last week. ‘They went on about it for years. I mean, it’s not as though they were stormtroopers.’