The Royals Carol Service hosted by Catherine Princess of Wales

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Who watched it then?

I thought it was beautiful, truly captured Christmas spirit. The Ukrainian story and the man who’d lost his wife both made me cry. The carols chosen and the chorus were excellent. Really lovely Christmas Eve TV!

One question though: where we’re Edward, James and Louise? Sophie was on her Tod! I thought it was sweet the W&C waited for her at the end, it’s interesting watching the dynamics and I feel like they’re especially close to that side of the family

Ooo, I see my post was deleted!!! When I said Charles was a racist, I was being sarcastic. In that when he arranged Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the Kingdom choir and was warm and welcoming to Doria and Meghan and he was never considered racist. But then he didn't keep funding Harry and he was suddenly racist.

Craig David was very good. The children from Ukraine did so well, their teacher looked so proud. Mel C wasn’t as bad as I was expecting after reading on here, but it was an odd pairing.

Christ.

I think MelbC started off ok. But she just couldn't compete with Alfie Boe. He tried to rein his voice in but he couldn't do it sufficiently to let her participate equally.

I think Silent Night also suffered from the arrangement. The beautiful melody got lost.

The children are always so impeccably behaved, I wonder what the secret is

They're trained to be aren't they as royals why are people always so surprised by their wonderful behavior 🙄

Well, presumably the children are properly prepared about what is going to happen, and what they should do - they are old enough to understand, and presumably manage to sit still and listen at school.

Not every 9 and 7 year old would be able to, of course (DD probably could have at 9, probably not at 7, but she has always been a fidget), but plenty would, and I expect that if they couldn't then they wouldn't have been included. Just as Louis isn't routinely included at the moment. No doubt he will be included once he can reliably sit still for long enough.

I don’t think it’s that unusual for kids to behave well and sit nicely. One of my kids would have done it easily from age 3, she was naturally quiet and calm though. But even my child that was more ‘spirited’ 😬 would have been fine from age 4/5 with the promise of something fun after. By 7 and 9, most kids would be absolutely fine.

Bit late catching up with this.
Have to agree it was an odd decision to pair MelC with Alfie Boe.

I enjoy a bit of Spice Girl pop. I quite liked her with Bryan Adams. I understood she has been good in the musicals she has done but that was never going to work, was it ?

However, what I noticed was the number of people in the congregation who made no attempt to join in with the carols. Why would you accept an invitation to a Carol service in a Church if you are then going to completely make no attempt to even mumble along to carols ? To be really, really clear, I am not saying "everyone in the country should sing carols" I am saying "Everyone who wants to go to a Carol service probably ought to give them a go".