2023-05-14 12:31:41
Every year there are appearances that surprise or make people talk at the Eurovision Song Contest. Last year Laura Pausini was one of the presenters, in 2019 Madonna performed in the final held in Tel Aviv and the Israeli government sued for bringing a Palestinian flag onto the stage. And in this edition, held in the British town of Liverpool, the contest has had an unexpected cameo, that of Princess Catherine of Wales, who played some chords of the theme on a grand piano Stephanie, with which the Ukrainian Kalush Orchestra won Eurovision last year. As reported Variety, The video – which served as an introduction to the start of the festival and in which other well-known figures such as the composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber or the rapper Ms Banks participated – was shot in the Crimson drawing room at Windsor Castle.
under the motto «United by music» (“United by music”) that closed her appearance, Kate Middleton has supported the contest held this year in her country, as the winners of last year could not be organized in Ukraine, as mandated by the Eurovision rules, because of war. The princess has once again trusted one of her leading designers for this moment: the British Jenny Packham, who trained at the prestigious Central Saint Martins fashion school and is known for her wedding and ceremony dresses. Packham has made different significant models for Middleton, such as the turquoise lace dress that he designed for her in 2012 for the presentation of the Olympic Games at the Royal Albert Hall in London or, more recently, the white bridal-style dress with cape with the Middleton attended her first State Dinner as Princess of Wales last November, an evening in honor of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
A #Eurovision surprise ????
A pleasure to join Kalush Orchestra in a special performance of last year’s winning @eurovision entry.
Enjoy the show, Liverpool ???? pic.twitter.com/y4WDuWvOvb
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) May 13, 2023
Since her collaboration with the then Duchess of Cambridge began, the designer began to dress other well-known figures and her creations have appeared in audiovisual projects such as the saga James Bond o Gossip Girl. For her Eurovisual cameo, Catherine of Wales has once again chosen to wear blue, the color of the cape she wore at the Coronation of her father-in-law, King Charles III, and also one of the colors of the Ukrainian flag, a country to which He has shown his support on different occasions since the start of the war (he met the Ukrainian first lady, Olena Zelenska, at Buckingham Palace in September 2022, when Zelenska attended Elizabeth II’s funeral). In this case, the princess has worn a voluminous design with an asymmetrical neckline with her hair loose and she has shown herself relaxed while she played the piano.
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