Sources close to Kylie Minogue-a regular at royal events in the past and every much an honorary Brit-said she turned down the opportunity because of the growing republican movement in her home country Australia. “The list of acts who declined the invitation to perform was long and included Sir Elton John, Harry Styles, the Spice Girls, Adele, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran. “Even finding entertainment for his coronation concert at Windsor Castle proved a challenge for the organizers,” Scobie writes in the book. In royal reporter Omid Scobie’s buzzy new book, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival, he writes that Swift was among the artists who were invited to perform at the coronation of King Charles III and declined.

Taylor Swift may have famously sung that “you’ll be the prince and I’ll be the princess / It’s a love story, baby just say yes,” but life doesn’t always imitate art: When a prince asked her a question-namely, whether she would perform at a party celebrating his recent promotion to king-she reportedly said no.

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