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King Charles makes request for Sugababes CD at purple carpet occasion

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Sugababes have a royal fan (Image: Getty)

King Charles III has been revealed as a fan of the Sugababes as he made a request for his or her hits to play at his King’s Belief Awards ceremony.

The monarch met with Hollywood royalty and quite a lot of different celebrities at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday night.

The group gathered to rejoice the recipients of awards on the upcoming King’s Belief Awards ceremony.

George Clooney and Amal Clooney, Dame Joanna Lumley, Joseph Fiennes, and Declan Donnelly had been on the purple carpet occasion, together with the lady group Sugababes.

King Charles chatted with Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Siobhan Donaghy, who will open and shut the ceremony at London’s Royal Pageant Corridor.

The King then chatted to Radio 1 DJ Melvin Odoom, who revealed that he informed the King he was taking requests as he’d be making ready a set for the purple carpet.

Melvin later informed PA Information Company: ‘He requested for the Sugababes CD to be performed.’

He joked that he’d take the request, albeit an out-of-date one: ‘I didn’t need to say to him we don’t use CDs anymore, I’m utilizing USB, however I’ll drop the Sugababes.’

The awards can be offered on the Royal Pageant Corridor on Thursday, June 26.

The King met with quite a lot of celebs (Image: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 21: Photographed here are singers, Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Siobh??n Donaghy during the Red Nose Day night of TV for Comic Relief on March 21, 2025 in Manchester, England. Live from MediaCityUk in Salford on BBC One and iPlayer. (Photo by James Stack/Comic Relief via Getty Images)
The band is made up of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Siobhan Donaghy (Image: James Stack/Comedian Aid through Getty Photographs)

The babes themselves later responded to the information that that they had a fan within the King: ‘That’s very, very cool to know the King has requested us.

‘We stated to the King we’ve been round for 25 years and he was like wow, he was a bit bowled over.’

They added that that they had an thought in thoughts about which CD they could ship to the King first.

‘He stated he needed a CD and we expect we’ll introduce him to Overload first, he was actually pretty.’

The Sugababes pose for a studio group portrait, London, 2001. Left ro right: Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy. (Photo by David Tonge/Getty Images)
The band fashioned within the 90s (Image: David Tonge/Getty Photographs)

The lady band brought on chaos at Glastonbury earlier this 12 months once they carried out on the West Holts stage. Regardless of being the pageant’s third-largest stage, it merely didn’t have the capability to host the massive variety of followers wanting to see the celebs carry out.

Followers needed to be turned away from the efficiency by safety as a consequence of fears of overcrowding – and lots of had been fuming that they had been pressured to overlook out.

The lady group is about to provide the Worthy Farm pageant a miss this 12 months after touring all through April.

The present group members are the unique ones from when the band was first fashioned in 1998. Siobhan left the group in 2001, with Mutya leaving in 2005, and Keisha leaving in 2009.

After three totally different formation variations, the ladies returned to the unique lineup in 2011, reclaiming the rights to the identify the Sugababes in 2019 – and the remaining is historical past.

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