They made their royal entrance.
Simply days after the coronation ceremony, King Charles and Queen Camilla made a shock cameo in a pre-recorded video aired on the 67th Eurovision music contest semi-finals on Tuesday night.
Within the clip, the place they each seem for just some seconds, Queen Camilla, wearing a royal blue coat gown, is first seen peering over somebody with a clipboard finishing a guidelines earlier than Eurovision 2023 kicks off.
The digicam then pans to King Charles, who’s standing subsequent to her, sporting a navy blue go well with jacket and royal blue patterned tie.
They stand collectively backstage as folks sporting elaborate costumes — 2022 Eurovision entrant Subwoolfer, from Norway — go them each by.
The royal pair aren’t heard saying something within the video, however it appeared that Charles was making an attempt to murmur one thing to his spouse whereas filming.
This 12 months, Eurovision, a songwriting competitors broadcast all over the world, is being held within the M&S Financial institution Enviornment in Liverpool, England.
It’s the first time prior to now 25 years that the competitors has been held within the UK, in response to the BBC.
Final 12 months’s winner, Ukraine, was imagined to host however was unable to take action this 12 months due to the continuing battle with Russia, Deadline reported.
The competition is organized by the European Broadcasting Union, in response to Eurovision’s web site, and every collaborating broadcaster from 37 collaborating international locations chooses a music and an artist to carry out on the competitors.
The competition takes place with three lives reveals: the First Semi-Closing on Tuesday night, the Second Semi-Closing on Thursday night and the Grand Closing on Saturday evening.
There can be 4 presenters all through this week’s competitors, in response to Deadline, together with Ukranian singer Julia Sanina, English rapper Alesha Dixon, “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham and widespread UK discuss present host Graham Norton.
Newly topped King Charles and Queen Camilla are definitely no strangers to Eurovision – in April, the pair visited Liverpool to dramatically unveil the stage to the general public.
It could have been the identical day they filmed their new pre-recorded cameo, as they have been noticed sporting the identical outfits on this video as the disclosing.
This previous weekend was a giant one for the couple, as King Charles was formally topped as monarch in an elaborate coronation ceremony on Saturday at Westminster Abbey.
It marked the official switch of energy to him after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, this previous September on the age of 96.
She had reigned for 70 years on the time of her demise.
The ceremony was stuffed with royal members of the family, together with Charles’ son, Prince Harry, who arrived in the UK with out his spouse for the primary time because the January launch of his tell-all memoir, “Spare.”
Nonetheless, he solely stayed within the nation for less than 24 hours, racing dwelling to get again in time for his son Archie’s fourth birthday, which was the identical day on the coronation.
It reportedly had some royal members of the family questioning why he “even bothered” to attend the festivities.
“One makes one’s decisions,” a supply near the household told Vanity Fair. “To be sincere there wasn’t a lot discuss of Harry in any respect. The main target was very a lot on the event.”
On Sunday, a grand coronation live performance came about on the grounds of Windsor Fortress, drawing a crowd of over 20,000 folks and performances from Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.
Even Princess Charlotte sang along to Perry’s lyrics as she carried out her 2013 hit “Roar.”
In the course of the occasion, Prince William additionally took to the stage to make an emotional speech congratulating his father whereas additionally paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.
“As my grandmother stated, when she was topped, coronations are a declaration of our hopes for the long run, and I do know she’s up there fondly maintaining a tally of us, and he or she’d be a really proud mom,” William stated.
Perry’s look on the gala also led to a surprise cameo by the king and queen on Sunday’s episode of “American Idol,” on which the “Firework” singer is a decide.
