It might feel like Swift fever has hit the nation as Taylor Swift returns this month for her final Eras tour dates. But one royal might not be there at the event.
Princess Kate, who has paused royal engagements due to her health status, has not openly come out as a Swiftie but has been vocal about a different singer.
The Princess of Wales has shown her enthusiasm for singer Ellie Goulding who even performed during Kate and Prince William’s first dance as man and wife.
The Love Me Like You Do singer was the headline act at the glittering wedding reception and sang Elton John’s “Your Song”, in front of a star-studded audience including Sir Elton John himself, David and Victoria Beckham, Rowan Atkinson and more.
Since the wedding in 2011, Kate has gone on to attend other events featuring Ellie Goulding and gushed about the star’s talent.
In December 2021, during the height of the pandemic, Kate hosted Royal Carols: Together at Christmas, where Ellie Goulding made another appearance.
The event was reminscent of Kate and William’s wedding as it was hosted in Westminster Abbey where they exchanged their wedding vows.
At the festive event, Ellie sang “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” as Kate and William shared sweet smiles.
And clearly she has royal connections as the British singer is close friends with William’s cousin Princess Eugenie.
The songstress, 34, previously opened up about singing Elton John’s “Your Song” at the royals’ reception and her surprise at being the headliner.
“I mean, talking about scary… I was so nervous that my hands were shaking like this [she shakes her hands],” Goulding told Australian Vogue in 2016. “That was one of my memories, I remember looking down and just seeing this. Chris, my pianist, I looked over at him and he looks at me like, ‘Literally, you have just s— yourself. I know it in your face that you’ve just literally pooed yourself’.”
“I thought I was a decoy,” she said. “I thought I was a decoy for someone else. It could happen! At the time, [Lady] Gaga was everywhere, and rightly so, she was killing it, and you know, Beyoncé and Jay Z, and then, you know, me.”
