The biggest fan Daniel never met was the late Queen Mum. “The artist Derek Hill lived in Donegal and he used to get me to sign CDs to ‘Ma’am’. He used to paint with the King when he was Prince Charles, and Charles would deliver them to his grandmother.”

A Daniel O’Donnell DVD sat proudly on the Clarence House the coffee table.

“I would have loved to have met her, and Queen Elizabeth – a great woman really. I met Charles at the millennium in Cardiff; he gave me the MBE in…