Charles III hired the piper who woke Queen Elizabeth every morning. Paul Burns will continue in the role he held under the sovereign who died on September 8. The Major of the Royal Regiment of Scotland played the bagpipes every morning to wake the Queen and will now do the same for the new monarch.
Tradition, which dates back to 1843 and was established by Queen Victoria, holds that the singular “awakening” occurs at nine in the morning. Tradition that Elizabeth kept as soon as she ascended the throne, in 1952. And Charles does not want to be outdone. “The Queen loved to hear the sound of the bagpipes,” a Buckingham Palace source told British newspaper “The Sun”.
Burns was Elizabeth’s 17th Piper Queen. He was nominated in 2021 and gained worldwide fame after performing a very famous ballad in England, ‘Sleep Dearie Sleep’, when the Queen’s coffin entered St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle to be placed in the vault of King George VI on 19 of September. The sound of Burns’ bagpipes accompanied the key moments of the sovereign’s funeral, also at Westminster Abbey.
Scott Methven, Pipe Major from 2015 to 2019, spoke fondly of the late monarch: “He was the best boss I ever had. She was calm and fun. When she died, it’s like I lost a family member.”
Source: IL Tempo
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