Paul McCartney: What did Bono say to make the Queen giggle? (THE DIAMOND JUBILEE)

It was the biggest gathering ever seen of the UK's most glittering members of the music and arts world.

Sir Paul McCartney rubbed shoulders with Bono and Vivienne Westwood, while Kenneth Branagh chatted to Dame Shirley Bassey – and they were all gathered together in London's Royal Academy, to pay tribute to the Queen.


Bono made the 86-year-old laugh when he praised her trip to the Republic of Ireland last year.

He joked: "And the Queen spoke Gaelic, I can't even speak Gaelic."

There were 850 leading cultural figures at the reception to mark the monarch's Diamond Jubilee, and the number included newcomers like model Agyness Deyn and rapper Tinie Tempah.

Dame Vivienne said she had changed her opinion about the monarchy since the Seventies era of punk, when her design career took off.

"At one time I thought the Queen represented all the political hypocrisy of England," she said.

"I realised they're above politics. I think they are a social cement and the job she does is incredible."

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