THE Duchess of CAMBRIDGE, Kate Middleton surprised an audience at a community carol service with her piano playing skills.
Kate appeared alongside the musician Tom Walker in a clip shown at the Westminster Abbey event.
The pair took part in secret filming at a recording studio ahead of the concert, which was broadcast on ITV.
Royal Carols: Together At Christmas was staged for people who supported their communities during the Covid pandemic.
A video of the duchess performing with Walker on his previously unheard Christmas song, For Those Who Can’t Be Here, has been posted on the Kensington Palace Twitter feed.
British singer-songwriter Walker said he was approached by the duchess after they met at a charity event.
Walker said: “We got together, we rehearsed the song like nine times and by the end of it she’d absolutely nailed it, and then she went away for a couple of days and practised it, and then we finally got to do the recording of it.
“And I was really impressed because it’s one thing playing along with me in a studio, just the two of us, but then to jump straight in to playing with a live string quartet and a pianist and two backing singers.”
He added: “I think we were both really nervous that it wasn’t going to go quite to plan and one of us would let down the other person or whatever, but she was absolutely fabulous – she smashed it.”
The duchess has passed her grade three piano and grade five theory.
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