{"id":653807,"date":"2025-12-25T09:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:18:27","slug":"catherine-and-charlotte-perform-christmas-carol-service-piano-duet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653807\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine and Charlotte perform Christmas carol service piano duet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Rossiterand<\/p>\n

Hafsa Khalil<\/p>\n

Watch: Catherine and Charlotte perform piano duet for Christmas Eve<\/p>\n

The Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte have performed a piano duet together for a Christmas carol service.<\/p>\n

The mother and daughter did not appear live at the Together at Christmas event at Westminster Abbey earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Their performance of a piece of music by Scottish composer Erland Cooper was pre-recorded at Windsor Castle last week specifically for the event’s Christmas Eve broadcast on ITV1.<\/p>\n

Kensington Palace had teased the clip ahead of the programme with a video of Catherine and a then unknown person playing the piano captioned “a special duet…”.<\/p>\n

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In the clip, the pair can be seen sitting together at the piano to play Holm Sound, a piece they are understood to 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

Narrating the video, Catherine says: “At its heart, Christmas speaks of love taking form in the simplest, most human ways.<\/p>\n

“Not in sentimental or grand gestures, but gentle ones. A moment of listening, a word of comfort, a friendly conversation, a helping hand, presence.<\/p>\n

“These simple acts of care might seem small but they contribute to the beautiful tapestry of life to which we all belong.”<\/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

The Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte pre-recorded their performance at Windsor Castle last week <\/p>\n

Catherine met actors Joe Locke, Kate Winslet and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and composer Paul Gladstone Reid <\/p>\n

As well as the mother-daughter duet, the 1,600 guests – ranging from royals to celebrities and local heroes – experienced a mixture of traditional and modern elements to include people of all faiths and none.<\/p>\n

Poems were read aloud by actors such as Kate Winslet and Chiwetel Ejiofor, while musical performances were given by the likes of Katie Melua, Dan Smith and Zac Abel. <\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales gave a Bible reading from the pulpit.<\/p>\n

Princess Charlotte and her brothers, Prince George and Prince Louis were also in attendance at the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Rossiterand Hafsa Khalil Watch: Catherine and Charlotte perform piano duet for Christmas Eve The Princess of Wales…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-653807","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\/115779464921888406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653807","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=653807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}