The wait is over. The Royal Palace has secured some musical heavyweights for King Charles's coronation, including Katy Perry and the legendary Lionel Richie. KatyPerry LionelRichie coronation
BBC and BBC Studios will be both producing and broadcasting Charles’s Coronation Concert, which is set to take place at Windsor Castle and will include additional performances from the Coronation Choir, Sir Bryn Terfel, Take That, Freya Ridings, and Alexis Ffrench. Richie and Perry, both judges on the decidedly non-U.K.
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, meets Katy Perry and Natasha Poonawalla as they arrive to attend a reception for supporters of the British Asian Trustof his invitation to perform at the royal concert in May. “We’ve been friends a long time, I’ve known him a long time, but to be asked is the whole thing.”
Richie added that “there’s more secrecy than you’ve ever imagined in your life” when it comes to preparing for the big day, and thatFrom left: Lionel Richie, King Charles III and Sir Tom Jones attend a Prince’s Trust International Reception at the Coral Reef Club Hotel.“I know what I’m going to do but when you ask, ‘What is everyone else going to do?’ Nothing,” Richie explained to“‘Who is everybody else?’ ‘Hmmm.’ ‘OK, well, what’s the production going to be like?’ [No response].
In keeping with that high level of secrecy, we have no way of knowing what songs Richie, Perry, Bocelli, and others might have prepared—and if the Palace has any say, we won’t know until we’re tuning in to the show on BBC.
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