EMILY PRESCOTT: Glastonbury star Freya Ridings’ royal performance

Freya Ridings, playing at Glasto has revealed her amazement at being asked to give a private performance by one of her biggest fans – the Princess of Wales.

Singer-songwriter Freya, 29, said it was a ‘really, really intimate event’, adding: ‘They were very humble, lovely, down-to-earth people and I got to meet the family and their little children.’

No doubt the young Royals were just as starstruck with Freya, who was on the Avalon stage at Glastonbury on Friday. Her actor father Richard Ridings is best known for voicing ‘Daddy Pig’ on TV’s Peppa Pig.

Singer-songwriter Freya, 29, said it was a ‘really, really intimate event’, adding: ‘They were very humble, lovely, down-to-earth people and I got to meet the family and their little children.’ Pictured, The Princess of Wales at the National Portrait Gallery

The festival’s green credentials seem to be undermined by ‘posh Gumtree’ Radio H-P touting £995 seats on a carbon-guzzling helicopter shuttle to take revellers from London to luxury glamping site Camp Kerala. For that they didn’t get the chopper to themselves either: as the Radio H-P ad says, the rides are ‘like car-pooling’.

The Kinks plan to showcase their 60th anniversary album at the festival next year.

Guitarist Dave Davies, 76, tells me he and brother Sir Ray, 79, are creating The Journey Part 2. They rejected being the first Glasto headliners in 1970. Dave says: ‘People thought it was like a cow shed with a few hippies lying in a field!’