Tom Walker ‘surprised’ by Duchess of Cambridge’s piano performance

By Laura Boyd and Calum Loudon

Tom Walker has admitted that The Duchess of Cambridge “surprised” him after she accompanied his singing with a piano performance at the Westminster Abbey carol concert last month.

The singer-songwriter, who added that he was “super nervous” was given a piano accompaniment by the duchess as he performed his Christmas single For Those Who Can’t Be Here.

The duet was part of the Duchess’s Royal Carols: Together At Christmas concert, filmed earlier this month.

Broadcast on ITV, the event was organised and hosted by Kate, as a thank you to the people who served their communities during the pandemic.

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Walker was approached by the Duchess to take part after they met at a charity event.

The 28-year-old said: “I was super nervous to being around royals.

“I failed half my GCSE’s yet here I am in a rehearsal room with the Duchess.

“I think she was nervous as well though because she hadn’t played with other musicians in a very long time.

“To jump in with me on my song, and then a week later to jump in a full team of people, bands she never played with, a string quartet, and then all the cameras and the lights in West Miniter Abbey, it’s a big jump from the rehearsal room to the actual event.

“I think it just went really well.

“I was so surprised you know; she absolutely smashed the performance and was so good.

“So, it just all came together really nicely.”