Hi Further to a post by a girl( I think) regarding Prince doing a charity concert last Friday at Marlborough House. I just wondered if he actually played and if so what songs. I know one girl's father on the forum was doing the lighting for this event. I am sure we would all be interested in hearing any news.

Here is an article from The Times:

(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1782084.ece)

Giving their all at the £28m charity dinner
Louise Armitstead

MIX an audience with Bill Clinton, a private concert by Prince and an appeal from Madonna and you have found the recipe to part City tycoons from their millions.

Britain’s most lavish charity dinner, held on Friday night in the historic grandeur of Marlborough House in Pall Mall, London, generated more than £28m. This was a new record for a meal and auction, according to the organisers.

Celebrities including Jemima Khan, Bob Geldof, Liz Hurley and Eddie Jordan joined 1,000 hedge fund managers and City grandees invited to offload parts of their bumper bonuses.

The event was organised by Absolute Return for Kids (Ark), a children’s charity set up by Arpad “Arki” Busson, the multi-millionaire French financier and former boyfriend of Elle Macpherson, the supermodel.

The dinner, held annually for the past six years, has turned into the country’s main celebration of high-profile charity-giving. The cash raised easily beat last year’s £18m.

At the dinner, Busson announced a five-year £8m joint venture with the Clinton Foundation to help Aids victims in Mozambique.

Tickets at last week’s event cost £10,000-£50,000. That was before anyone had even bought a £10,000 raffle ticket. Each table had the chance to win a limited-edition diamond necklace of six five-carat diamonds and a further 130 single-cut diamonds set in 18-carat white gold.

Guests ate carpaccio and tartare of Kobe beef with foie gras and sauternes terrine, followed by Cornish seabass fillet with mint oil and lemongrass beurre blanc.

A charity auction presided over by Lord Dalmeny of Sotheby’s was the biggest money-spinner. Clinton braced guests for their duty. Talking about world poverty, he said: “The world is changing into one in which private giving and private individuals can change the world . . . you can lead this new world.”

The most expensive lot, a safari in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya including game drives, fetched £480,000. A ticket to next year’s Academy Awards in Hollywood, plus two Armani outfits and an invitation to Sir Elton John’s preOscars party, went for £280,000.

Dalmeny flogged £2m of sponsorship for one of Tony Blair’s city academies, to be built by Ark. “Who will build the science wing — or the netball courts?” he asked.

its nice to see prince being involved in a charity event like this one, those ticket prices are unbelievable