The Queen taught Katherine Jenkins fruity table manners when the pair dined together.
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The Welsh opera singer – who enjoyed a dinner date with the monarch in 2009 – admitted she was baffled when she was presented with some gauze, a bowl of water and a fruit platter after her main course, and had no idea what she was supposed to do with it.
She told People magazine: ”When you go for lunch with the queen, you’re trained to make sure that your table manners are up to par. After the main course, they brought round a plate that had some gauze on it, a bowl of water and a platter of fruit.
”I thought, ‘I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that!’ Her Majesty helped me out and showed me what I needed to do. Wash the fruit in the bowl and clean it with the gauze.”
However, Katherine’s experience with the queen isn’t the only royal she has encountered, as Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall – the wife of Prince Charles – asked the mezzo-soprano to help her learn the words of the Welsh national anthem in 2007.
Katherine previously explained: ”I met the Duchess of Cornwall at the 2007 Classical Brit Awards. She was absolutely delightful and asked me if I spoke Welsh, which I do.
”She told me, ‘My husband speaks a little Welsh and I’m always very impressed when he sings the Welsh national anthem in Welsh. I’d love to learn the words of that.’ She is obviously very proud of Charles.
”I said to her, ‘If you ever need some lessons, I’ll gladly teach you!’ To which she replied, laughing, ‘I might need some singing lessons before that.”’
