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King Charles plays ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on a carrot at Windsor Castle

Bravo to the London Vegetable Orchestra, for persuading His Majesty to revive his musical past…

His Majesty the King, who is a former cellist, met the London Vegetable Orchestra at a reception at Windsor Castle and was persuaded to join the band. “I remember playing in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and trying to practise in my room at Cambridge to an old record conducted by Herbert von Karajan, who was the great conductor in those days, in the sixties. “There was me sitting with my cello and my tuning fork, and I put this thing on, and of course he took it at an incredible lick – you’ve no idea how fast!”.

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