Taylor Swift could have famously sung that “you’ll be the prince and I’ll be the princess / It’s a love story, child simply say sure,” however life doesn’t all the time imitate artwork: When a prince requested her a query—particularly, whether or not she would carry out at a celebration celebrating his current promotion to king—she reportedly mentioned no.
In royal reporter Omid Scobie’s buzzy new guide, Endgame: Contained in the Royal Household and the Monarchy’s Battle for Survival, he writes that Swift was among the many artists who had been invited to carry out on the coronation of King Charles III and declined.
“Even discovering leisure for his coronation live performance at Windsor Fort proved a problem for the organizers,” Scobie writes within the guide. “The record of acts who declined the invitation to carry out was lengthy and included Sir Elton John, Harry Types, the Spice Women, Adele, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran. Sources near Kylie Minogue—a daily at royal occasions up to now and each a lot an honorary Brit—mentioned she turned down the chance due to the rising republican motion in her residence nation Australia. Distinction that with the lineup for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: Queen (with Adam Lambert), Alicia Keys, Sir Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, and, very happy to clear his schedule for Her Majesty, even Sir Elton.”
A number of of the artists talked about as being requested to carry out appeared on a coronation playlist that Charles and Queen Camilla launched months previous to the coronation festivities. Headliners akin to Lionel Richie and Katy Perry, amongst others, carried out on the king’s live performance.
“The coronation refusals could seem frivolous, and little question some had been right down to logistics, however the shrug-offs additionally counsel one thing deeper at work,” the passage continues. “Charles simply doesn’t have the requisite gravitas, which is comprehensible, given he’s spent a majority of his life within the wake of the grand-class cruise ship of his mom’s fame.”
And, logistically, Swift would have had a prepared excuse to say no the invitation: On Might 7, the date of the live performance, Swift was performing the ultimate night time of her Nashville cease of the Eras Tour, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Gayle. The tour has stored her busy since March, and he or she not too long ago carried out her remaining dates of 2023 in Brazil earlier than heading again to the States for a vacation break. The tour will resume in February in Tokyo.
If King Charles continues to be hoping to bop alongside to “London Boy,” Swift has a collection of dates in the UK all through June, making stops in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff, and London.
Representatives for Taylor Swift didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
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