King Charles presents his playlist: Does he really hear Beyoncé?

You have to leave it the royals: they are exemplary in recycling. The Duchess of Sussex recently gave so obvious tips in her new Netflix series “With Love, Meghan” that she could come from the old party planner book of her British sister-in-law Pippa Middleton. “Buy a balloon pump, then it works faster!” Explains Meghan there and, with the banality of this tip, comes suspiciously close to this tip from Pippa’s book “Let’s Celebrate”, which was: “Don’t forget to remove the price tag from the gift!”

King Charles, who has always been environmentally conscious, “upcycated” now a stone -old format of the BBC: the “Desert Island Discs” program: “Music for the lonely island”, has been running on BBC Radio 4. Every weekend presented prominent music that accompanied her through life. At the Commonwealth Day on Monday, the Monarch releases its own “Desert Island Discs”, but they are not called that. The program “The King’s Music Room”, recorded in the Buckingham Palace room of the same name, has been running on Apple Music 1 on Monday morning. If you want to hear it, you first have to complete a trial subscription with Apple or sit next to the radio and wait for the shipment to be broadcast again every few hours.

What does a program in which the United Kingdom’s monarch celebrates the diversity and talents of the post-colonial federal government of Commonwealth on an American streaming platform? This is just as wonders of many British taxpayers, who, with his taxes, finance the British royal family and its numerous palaces generously. This is probably also about many Canadians, against whose country-one of the largest members of the Commonwealth-US President Donald Trump is currently waging a trade war. The proverbial ring of the self -styled monarch Trump has recently kissed none other than Tim Cook, CEO from Apple, at Trump’s inauguration.

A year ago, Apple is said to have brought the king to the not exactly original idea for the show; So long before Trump & Co. moved into the White House. Nevertheless, someone in the palace could have come up with the idea that the concept of the BBC would be better in the hands of the British public broadcaster, who had finally invented the program and would have broadcast it without barrier and, above all, free of charge.

Well. But what does King Charles actually hear? If you believe the biography of journalist Robert Hardman – few know the king better than him – it is especially Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler. But Great Britain’s eccentric monarch should also be a gifted dancer, explained the actress and Charles’ long -time good friend Emma Thompson. Dancing with Charles, she told the US magazine “Time” more than a decade ago. She did not reveal what the two danced for at the time – maybe it was Donna Summers “Upside Down”, one of 17 titles that the elderly DJ Charles initiates with warm words and one or the other anecdote.

It seems a little curated, the musical journey around the globe that the monarch with warm, but here and there is a fragile voice. Some songs, such as the 64 hit “My Boy Lollipop” by Jamaican Millie Small, are taken from him, as well as the thirty song “The very thought of you” by Al Bowll, the Charles reminds of his childhood and grandmother, Queen Mum.

What Bob Marley thinks of being included in the list of “DJ Charles” is to be seen. The arrangement of his song “Could You Be Loved” for the wind players of King’s King’s Guard regiment would have been sure to have fun. The reggae icon was considered an anti-establishment figure in the kingdom.

On the journey through the Commonwealth countries, Kylie Minogue represents the old hit “The Loco Motion” Australia, Michael Bublé sings for Canada the beautiful Schnulze “Haven’t Found You Yet”. Then it gets exotic: on the dance hit “Cante” of the Nigerian Davide follow “The Click Song” by South African Miriam Makeba and “Indian Summer” by Ravi-Shankar daughter Anoushka.

In between, Charles entertains with memories of the many trips on which he met the stars whose music he introduces. In addition, he maintains one or the other anecdote. As a nine -year -old, he received a real arch with a quiver “full of dangerous looking arrows” from Ghana’s president – “a perfect gift for little boys” – which he immediately tried. That was on the property of the royal country seat in Balmoral in Scotland, the arrow was luckily only hit by the trunk of a jaw.

The king raves about the British R&B star Raye and the Jamaican Grace Jones, whose version of the Edith-Piaf hits “La Vie en Rose” he considers at least as well as the original. Does King Charles, Hugh Grant’s Prime Minister in “actually love”, dancing just through the corridors of the palace to Afro beat, to “Hot Hot Hot” by Arrow or to Beyoncés “Crazy in Love”? Probably not, but there is now the right soundtrack for the head cinema. “When I was younger,” says the monarch about the sounds of Donna Summers “Upside Down”, “I had to pull myself together not to get up and dance. Maybe I’ll be able to do it today.” But sure, your majesty. Only next time at the BBC.