This year marks the first time Britain has had a solid chance of winning Eurovision in more than a decade, and the Princess of Wales made sure tonight’s Grand Final got off to a headline-grabbing start by participating in the event’s opening film.
The short clip sees last year’s champions, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, performing their winning entry of “Stefania” in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti station, interspersed with cutaways to UK-based talents ranging from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Ms Banks. For her part, Kate performed a short instrumental piece for her cameo, filmed at a piano in the Crimson Drawing Room of Windsor Castle.
The video was, of course, prerecorded, with the Princess wearing a one-shouldered Jenny Packham gown to play Joe Price and Kojo Samuel’s composition. The performance – and her choice of a Ukrainian-blue dress – were a welcome show of support for the eastern European country more than a year into Russia’s invasion. Controversially, the European Broadcasting Union banned President Zelensky from making an address during the contest this year out of concerns that it would violate the competition’s alleged political neutrality.
Source: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-middleton-eurovision