Prince Charles (far left above) got in touch with his German roots earlier tonight when he paid a low-key visit to the Royal Opera House for the first night of the Meistersinger revival.
Slipping in unobtrusively, he sat attentively through the full nearly six hour performance (no mid-show tweeting for HRH), offering generous applause before he escaped quietly through a side door into his waiting car.
I didn't recognise any of HRH's five-strong posse, proof I spend too much time listening to opera and not enough studying Hello!
