the dailymash

Henshall, who has starred in Chicago and Miss Saigon, but no television programmes, admitted everyone had probably worked it out all already, but just wanted to make sure .

She said: "Did I really say Prince Edward? Are you sure? Anyway, of course it wasn't him, I'm not some kind of freak.

"But I do remember him being there on many of those occasions when I was smuggled in for tea and shagging.

"He was always asking about the West End and whether I knew anyone behind the scenes at We Will Rock You. He had his own Freddie Mercury costume."

She added: "The rest of them were like a completely normal German family.

"They would drink Lowenbrau, eat enormous sausages and go out of their way to say how much they loved Woody Allen films.

"On one occasion, when I was appearing in Miss Saigon, I came straight from the theatre in full costume and make up.

"But within moments of arriving at the palace a furious Prince Philip ran at me with his sausage fork yelling: 'Eine Chinken frauline! Schnell! Schnell!'"

Henshall said the relationship ended because of the pressures of her showbiz career and Prince Andrew's determination to break 80 at Royal Troon.