King Charles pays musical tribute to Tina Turner during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
28.05.2023 - 00:23
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King Charles III honored the late Tina Turner with a musical tribute during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The "Queen of Rock n' Roll" died at the age of 83 Wednesday at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, after a long illness. Following her death, the recently crowned 74-year-old monarch authorized the Band of the Welsh Guards to play Turner's song "The Best" during the famed ceremony in London Friday.
The Band of the Welsh Guards was accompanied by the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards Corps of Drums as they performed a rendition of the 1989 hit, according to the Mirror.The Changing of the Guard is the ceremony during which the King's Guard hands over responsibility for protecting Buckingham Palace and St. James's Palace to the New Guard. Charles and his late ex-wife Princess Diana first met the music icon during the Prince's Trust All-Star Rock Concert at London's Wembley Arena in June 1986. In a 2021 appearance on the "Time to Walk" podcast, Prince William revealed "The Best" has special meaning for the royal family.
He recalled that Diana would play the song for him and his younger brother Prince Harry to soothe their anxieties over heading back to boarding school. "When I was younger, Harry and I, we were at boarding school," the Prince of Wales, 40, remembered. "And my mother used to play all sorts of songs to kind of while away the anxiety of going back to school.
"And one of the songs I massively remember and has stuck with me all this time, and I still, to this day, still quite enjoy secretly, is Tina Turner's 'The Best' because sitting in the backseat, singing away, it felt like a real family moment. "And my mother, she'd be driving along, singing at the top of her voice. And we'd even get the
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