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King Charles’s Apple Music playlist: are they really his favourite songs?

Some of the choices on The King’s Music Room – Beyoncé, Raye – are frankly implausible but disco and reggae from his youth do get a nod

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa gets a look in, and she famously sang Handel’s Let the Bright Seraphim at his wedding to Lady Diana Spencer (“she’s certainly got a good pair of lungs on her,” noted the contemporary fictional diarist Adrian Mole of her performance). Perhaps Grace Jones’s La Vie En Rose and Diana Ross’s Upside Down evoke memories of the aforementioned poshos’ discos in his heady bachelor days (the latter track, he suggests during a filmed introduction, is one he found “impossible not to dance to” in his youth). It’s presumably not beyond the realms of possibility that he encountered the work of Bob Marley in the same period, although his introduction steers clear of personal reminiscence in favour of footage of a royal band playing Could You Be Loved.

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