They made their royal entrance.
Just days after the coronation ceremony, King Charles and Queen Camilla made a surprise cameo in a pre-recorded video aired on the 67th Eurovision song contest semi-finals on Tuesday evening.
Within the clip, where they each appear for just a couple of seconds, Queen Camilla, wearing a royal blue coat dress, is first seen peering over someone with a clipboard completing a checklist before Eurovision 2023 kicks off.
The camera then pans to King Charles, who’s standing next to her, wearing a navy blue suit jacket and royal blue patterned tie.
They stand together backstage as people wearing elaborate costumes — 2022 Eurovision entrant Subwoolfer, from Norway — pass them each by.
The royal pair aren’t heard saying anything within the video, however it appeared that Charles was attempting to murmur something to his wife while filming.
This 12 months, Eurovision, a songwriting competition broadcast all over the world, is being held within the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England.
It’s the primary time previously 25 years that the competition has been held within the UK, in keeping with the BBC.
Last 12 months’s winner, Ukraine, was imagined to host but was unable to accomplish that this 12 months due to the continued war with Russia, Deadline reported.
The competition is organized by the European Broadcasting Union, in keeping with Eurovision’s website, and every participating broadcaster from 37 participating countries chooses a song and an artist to perform on the competition.
The competition takes place with three lives shows: the First Semi-Final on Tuesday evening, the Second Semi-Final on Thursday evening and the Grand Final on Saturday night.
There might be 4 presenters throughout this week’s competition, in keeping with Deadline, including Ukranian singer Julia Sanina, English rapper Alesha Dixon, “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham and popular UK talk show host Graham Norton.
Newly crowned 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 recent pre-recorded cameo, as they were spotted wearing the identical outfits on this video as the revealing.
This past weekend was a giant one for the couple, as King Charles was officially crowned as monarch in an elaborate coronation ceremony on Saturday at Westminster Abbey.
It marked the official transfer of power to him after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, this past September on the age of 96.
She had reigned for 70 years on the time of her death.
The ceremony was stuffed with royal relations, including Charles’ son, Prince Harry, who arrived in the UK without his wife for the primary time because the January release of his tell-all memoir, “Spare.”
Nevertheless, he only stayed within the country for lower than 24 hours, racing home to get back in time for his son Archie’s fourth birthday, which was the identical day on the coronation.
It reportedly had some royal relations wondering why he “even bothered” to attend the festivities.
“One makes one’s selections,” a source near the family told Vanity Fair. “To be honest there wasn’t much talk of Harry in any respect. The main focus was very much on the occasion.”
On Sunday, a grand coronation concert took place on the grounds of Windsor Castle, drawing a crowd of over 20,000 people and performances from Katy Perry and Lionel Richie.
Even Princess Charlotte sang along to Perry’s lyrics as she performed her 2013 hit “Roar.”
Throughout the event, Prince William also took to the stage to make an emotional speech congratulating his father while also paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.
“As my grandmother said, when she was crowned, coronations are a declaration of our hopes for the long run, and I do know she’s up there fondly keeping track of us, and she or he’d be a really proud mother,” William said.
