LONDON: Soul legend Chaka Khan, pop singer Lady GaGa and actress Whoopi Goldberg were among stars to entertain Queen Elizabeth II and her husband on December 7 at Britain’s annual Royal Variety Performance. American teen star Miley Cyrus also performed for the monarch, gyrating in leather hot pants on stage while singing her hit Party in the USA in the resort town of Blackpool in northwest England. Wearing a red PVC outfit and playing a piano suspended on giant stilts, Lady GaGa put in a relatively conservative performance, perhaps toning down her normally controversial style for the monarch, at Blackpool’s Opera House. “Good evening Blackpool. Let me hear you rattle your jewellery,” she said. Some 1,000 people gathered outside the theatre for a glimpse of the queen and Duke of Edinburgh as they arrived for the gala evening, held for charity. Veteran comedian Frank Carson greeted the couple inside, and attempted to give Prince Philip a pair of cufflinks bearing the English flag. “I tried to give him the cufflinks as a bit of a joke, but he handed them back. There was a note in the box saying ‘Stolen by Frank Carson’,” he said.