Is this really the King’s favourite music?
If you’ve ever had sleepless nights wondering what King Charles’s favourite tunes are, Apple has now come to your rescue. A selection has been put out on Apple Music, grandiloquently entitled ‘His Majesty King Charles III’s Playlist’, and the monarch has put out a brief statement to explain his choices. ‘I wanted to share with you songs which have brought me joy. They evoke many different styles and many different cultures. But all of them, like the family of Commonwealth nations, in their many different ways, share the same love of life in all its richness and diversity.’
The lede is hardly buried, but the knowledge that these songs have been ‘compiled to mark Commonwealth Day’ means that the selection is less a truly representative selection of the music that one can imagine the King listening to in his private time at Sandringham or Highgrove, and more a carefully focused-grouped selection of inoffensive but often inessential songs, all with Commonwealth associations.
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