Last Christmas: Queen Elizabeth is a massive Wham! fan, the band's former manager reveals

Her Majesty the Queen is secretly a fan of 1980s pop duo Wham! and even asked for an audience with them, it has been revealed.

The new insight into the Royal's personal interests comes from the band's late manager Bryan Morrison, who biography was published recently, according to the Daily Mail.

In his memoirs, published after his untimely death in 2008, Morrison writes how she met Wham! at a polo match in June 1985.

So enthralled by the music of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley was the Queen, that she even requested to meet them in private.

Morrison said the duo were invited to the Guards Polo Club in Great Windsor Park, when they were then to meet her. 

″Through an emissary, I learnt that the Queen had heard that I was managing and publishing Wham! and that she would like to meet them, ″ he said according to the Mirror.

″To my amazement, on greeting them, the Queen knew all of their hits and spent a great deal of time listening to their exploits.″

Wake Me Up (Before You Go-Go) singer George Michael, a close friend of Princess Diana, reportedly spoke about the meeting later that year.