Kate Middleton made a surprise appearance at 2023's Eurovision Song Contest. During the opening sequence of the contest's grand final on Saturday evening, the Princess of Wales contributed an instrumental piano performance of “Stefania”, the winning song from last year's Eurovision champions, Kalush Orchestra. Her pre-recorded performance, created by composers, arrangers and musical directors Joe…
only the second person to win the eurovision contest twice, johnny logan being the first, now you. how does it feel? this is overwhelming. i m so happy and i am so thankful. thank you for this. this is for you, thank you. we re so happy for you, loreen, bringing eurovision to sweden for abba s 50th anniversary year. it s so, so special. while it s called eurovision, the song contest has plenty of fans here in the us as well. and this year, for the first time ever, americans and fans from anywhere in the world could actually vote even if their own country didn t compete. alesia michelle is one of those superfans. i caught up with her after a large watch party here in washington and asked her why she thought sweden s loreen was a two time winner.
covering of snow. this is la raya, and other areas in spain were affected by storms which saw catalonia and valencia battered by hailstones and torrential downpours after months without a drop of rain. the winner of this year s eurovision song contest has been declared, with sweden taking the crown for a record seventh time with singer loreen s song, tattoo. this was the moment her victory was announced. it was a closely fought battle with neighbour, finland. now, loreen was already the bookies favourite she won in 2012. but she now becomes the second person to ever with the contest twice and the first woman to achieve the feat. the bbc s david sillito was following all the action. live from liverpool, this is the grand final of the reason song contest 2023. it
all the people who chose us and voted for us. we take all of that and show the world our message. we will show how ukraine can be different and how strong ukrainians are and we hope we can inspire people around the planet to look at the ukrainians fighting for theirfreedon, land and families. # together in electric dreams. i would like everyone to feel that we in the uk have done ukraine proud. that is what i would love. how are you doing liverpool? it is time to kick off the eurovision song contest 2023. we are all nervous and tired and happy but we won t totally rest until we finish what will hopefully be another great live show tomorrow night.
fans for each show. though the royals will be back in the uk, ukrainian president zelensky would have preferred the contest to stay closer to home. translation: l have great - respect for the united kingdom, it s an amazing country. my opinion from the start has been that if we can t host eurovision, it should take place in one of the countries that share a border with us such as slovakia or poland or any other countries which our people can reach easily, something nearby. since the news broke that the contest was coming here, we have had a few different prime ministers but the invite for the current one, rishi sunak, seems to have gotten lost in the post. will you be there? i probably won t be there but we are planning to host an event in downing street with ukrainian families. the reason we are hosting it is because of the situation