MEGAN Armstrong showed off her wonderful voice as well as her Welsh language skills in front of an audience of millions at the weekend.

The 18-year-old performed at the Gillette Four Nations clash between England and Wales on Saturday in front of a record crowd of 10,377 at Leigh Sports Village and millions of fans watching live on BBC One.

Megan sang the English national anthem God Save The Queen before the game and, as if the task wasn’t already daunting enough, she also belted out the Welsh anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, despite not speaking a word of Welsh.

She was chosen to sing at the game by the RFL after her performance at the Co-operative Championship Final at the beginning of October.

After landing the gig, the former Rainford High pupil, from Windle, then began the hard task of learning the Welsh anthem.

To perfect the Welsh needed, Megan called in assistance from the Manchester Welsh Society, who helped with the pronunciation of the words with lessons over the phone. She also visited the Society’s church in Didsbury to sing through the anthem with native Welsh speakers.

Several more practice sessions with Rainford Brass Band, who she performed alongside on the day of the game, ensured that Megan was fully prepared but she admits it was no easy task.

She said it was tricky: “Repetition and learning it phonetically really helped me to memorise it, so I could sing it from memory on the day which I thought was important.”

Megan, who is used to watching her brother, former Saints star Thomas Armstrong, performing on the pitch, coped well when the role was reversed, with Tom and the rest of her family watching from the stands.

She said: “It was like I was just stood by myself singing in my house. I was just concentrating on doing everything right and then when I got off the pitch I went ‘wow’.”

Megan has a place at Arts Education School in London in September 2012 and is teaching dance and singing. She has also been signed up by NB Sports Management, the company which represents Saints’ star Jon Wilkin.