{"id":653537,"date":"2025-12-25T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653537\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:43:13","slug":"catherine-and-charlotte-perform-christmas-carol-service-piano-duet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653537\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine and Charlotte perform Christmas carol service piano duet"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the clip, the pair can be seen sitting together at the piano to play Holm Sound, a piece it is understood, that they know well and have enjoyed playing together at home.<\/p>\n

The Princess of Wales used only her left hand, while Charlotte played with just her right in Windsor Castle’s Inner Hall.<\/p>\n

As they performed, footage was shown of guests arriving for the carol service – with the Prince of Wales and Catherine watching as their children tied paper chains bearing their names on a “Connection Tree” outside the abbey.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Catherine – who has passed her grade three piano and grade five theory – has played at a carol service.<\/p>\n

At the inaugural event in 2021, she surprised audiences by accompanying singer-songwriter Tom Walker on piano<\/a> as he sang his Christmas song, For Those Who Can’t Be Here.<\/p>\n

Organisers said this year’s theme – to celebrate the “power of love and togetherness” in recognition of people across the country who contribute to society – was picked because people will be able to celebrate love in all forms in a world that can often feel fragmented and disconnected.<\/p>\n

It is understood that Catherine wanted to include the special performance to highlight the importance of connections.<\/p>\n

“The time, care and compassion you give, often quietly and unspoken, and without any expectation or recognition, make an extraordinary difference to the lives of others,” Catherine wrote in a letter that accompanied every order of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the clip, the pair can be seen sitting together at the piano to play Holm Sound, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-653537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115778617861287692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}