Taylor Swift turned down offer to perform at King Charles’ Coronation, new book claims

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Taylor Swift had allegedly turned down an invitation to perform at King Charles’ Coronation concert back in May.The claims of the pop star turning down the offer come from royal expert Omid Scobie’s new book, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival.

Scobie did not specify any reason as to why the ‘London Boy’ singer had declined the invitation but she did have a show as part of her ‘Eras’ tour the same day as the coronation concert in Nashville, Tennessee.King Charles was crowned as the new monarch on May 6, 2023 which was the day after he took over the title from the late Queen Elizabeth II who died last year.

Artists such as Ed Sheeran, Adele, Robbie Williams, Harry Styles and the Spice Girls all turned down the invitation to performIn his book, Scobie noted that while these refusals “may seem frivolous”, they are also a sign of “something deeper at work”.He also suggested that the lack of artists wanting to perform at the coronation might be an indicator that Charles is not as popular as his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, citing the star-studded line-up at her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.“Charles just doesn’t have the requisite gravitas, which is understandable, given he’s spent a majority of his life in the wake of the grand-class cruise ship of his mother’s reputation,” he wrote (per The Independent). “In fact, positive opinion of the royal family in the United Kingdom dropped from 68 per cent to 54 per cent within four months of the Queen’s death.“In our era of celebrity obsession and pop culture icons, if Elton and Harry Styles can’t be bothered, why should we be?”Allegedly, the new monarch was reportedly “very keen” to have Adele and Sheeran performing at his coronation but they.