People watching from home were not surprised by King Charles’ gaffe at the ceremonial opening of the Eurovision 2023 stage in Liverpool.
Furthermore, the BBC Breakfast hosts have already stepped in to criticise the queen for the goof recorded on camera.
Before the start of the spectacular singing competition, which Ukraine won last year, King Charles III, 74, and Queen Consort Camilla, 75, were tasked with pressing the button that would turn on all of the lights surrounding the stage where this year’s competitors will perform.
They both walked in at the same moment to press the pink button… However, prior to the much anticipated occasion, perhaps greater coordination behind the scenes was required.
While the Queen Consort used her entire hand to press down on the button, the King simply used one finger… As a result, his digit was shifted to one side.
This meant that he didn’t seem to press the button at all, leaving the Queen Consort to do it on her own in the end.
On Thursday’s BBC Breakfast, the important moment played out on screen, and Charlie Stayt brought it up to viewers in case they missed it.
‘Who doesn’t love a countdown? When everyone counts down, and someone hits a button, and it all works perfectly. Or… not quite,’ the 60-year-old presenter quipped.
Explaining what happened, he continued: ‘If we track back through Colin’s film moments ago, you’ll have seen that moment where the countdown happened, and the King was to push the big button, the pink button. Can we see it now?
‘So watch closely, he puts his finger there. He gets his finger ready like that, and he doesn’t actually push the button. He misses the button, you see it goes down and it’s the Queen Consort who actually pushes the button because he just missed it.’
‘He has to rely on his wife to get it right,’ his co-host Nina Warhurst, 42, remarked, before jumping to the King’s defence.
‘Easily done though in the heat of the moment when you’re excited as I’m sure the King is. Perhaps overwhelmed by everything else that’s going on. They got there in the end.’
After witnessing the King and Queen Consort press (or failing to press) the Eurovision button in unison, one bemused spectator tweeted: ‘Does King Charles and Queen Camilla not know how to press a button?’
‘Honestly, imagine seeing this tweet 18 months ago. You’d 100% think you’ve travelled to a parallel universe. So utterly surreal,’ someone else commented.
BBC Breakfast airs daily from 6am on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Source My Celebrity Life.