Hannah Miley put on a royal performance on day one of the Commonwealth Games swimming this morning.

The defending 400 metres individual medley champion set a Games record in her qualifying heat - the first of race of the tournament - on a morning when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh watched on at the Tolcross International Swimming Centre.

The Queen described the action as "very fast" and that was certainly true for Miley, who touched in four minutes 38.27 seconds.

It secured her place in tonight's final, with domestic rival Aimee Willmott second quickest.

"It was good, quicker than expected," Miley told Press Association Sport.

"Now it's about recovering and bringing it back tonight. It will be a great race and I am looking forward to it."

Miley and Willmott were the quickest pair, with England's Danielle Lowe also squeezing into the final. Former Briton Ellen Gandy, now swimming for Australia, missed the cut.

While Miley was happy with her work, another leading Scottish name, Michael Jamieson, had plenty to ponder.

He claimed nerves played a part in him being beaten into second place by compatriot Ross Murdoch in the 200m breaststroke.

Murdoch set a Games record of 2:08.78 with Calum Tait coming in third to make it a Scottish one-two-three ahead of the final tonight.

Afterwards Olympic silver medallist Jamieson said: "I was really nervous in the last couple of days and at the start of this week I was getting worse and worse in the water because I was tightening up and letting the nerves get the better of me.

"But I feel a lot better after that. That will flush everything out and I can just chill out now. I have a lot of work to do tonight."

In an exciting men's 400m freestyle heat, Stephen Milne beat fellow Scots Dan Wallace and Robbie Renwick with a personal best time of 3:46.88, with all three qualifying for the final tonight.

"It was a good race," Milne said. "It was a Scottish one-two-three, so you can't complain about that.

"I couldn't really hear much until the end, but I knew we were pretty close.

"I will get recovered as best I can and step up tonight."

England's James Guy was also among the qualifiers.

In the women's 200m freestyle, England's Siobhan O'Connor initially set a Games record before it was broken in the next heat by Australian Emma McKeown. She progressed to the final as the second fastest swimmer, with Wales' Jazz Carlin also going through.

Benjamin Proud was fastest qualifier in the men's 50m butterfly with a time of 23.17 to go into tonight's semi-final along with fellow countryman Adam Barrett and with Tom Laxton of Wales. Proud was quicker than South African Chad le Clos, who finished third fastest.

England's Sophie Taylor qualified for the women's 50m breaststroke semi-final with a time of 30.56, the second fastest in the heats, along with countrywoman Molly Renshaw.

Scotland trio Corrie Scott, Kathryn Johnstone and Andrea Strachan also got through, with Wales' Bethan Sloan.