Frank Skinner had backstage bust-up with Sophie Wessex after performing Three Lions to royal audience

SOPHIE Wessex had a backstage bust-up with Frank Skinner after watching him sing Three Lions at last week’s Royal Variety Performance.

The comedian sang the England football anthem with David Baddiel in front of an audience including Prince Edward and his wife at the Royal Albert Hall, in a show to be aired on December 20.

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But he revealed that afterwards the royal pair told him he was not very good. Frank, who had battled through feeling unwell to sing, said: “She comes up and says, ‘Don’t give up your day job’.

“I said ‘Pardon?’. She said ‘I could tell it’s not what you do. You’re not used to a live crowd’.

“I said ‘Well, I’ve done some live stuff’. She said ‘Nothing the size of this’.

“I said ‘Look, I did the Palladium last Sunday’.

“She looked at me like ‘you’re not supposed to be arguing, you’re supposed to just nod’.”

“It was like a really awkward thing.” Stunned Skinner said Edward then also came up to him and co-star Baddiel and criticised their performance.

He recalled sarcastically replying “that’s a good review”.

The comic said: “The first thing he said to me, I said ‘Oh, that’s a good review’, because that was also quite a negative thing about our performance – but I can’t remember what it was.

“He went on to say that a lot of people think he is Charles’s son – not his brother.”

Catchy tune Three Lions, with its chorus ‘It’s Coming Home’, was released to mark England’s participation in Euro 96.