Ed Sheeran has left royal fans emotional over “unseen” footage of him performing his hit song Perfect in a tribute to Queen Elizabeth at last year’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
The popstar sang the poignant song in honour of the monarch, who died three months later on September 8, and her late husband Prince Philip, who died on April 9, 2021.
A montage of video clips of the Queen and Philip throughout her reign played as Ed, 32, belted out the romantic ballad with only a guitar.
The star’s performance last June was followed by the Queen appearing on Buckingham Palace balcony to wave to the crowd and close her historic four-day Jubilee celebrations.
A royal follower took to Twitter on Thursday to post Ed’s performance, which garnered thousands of likes and fans declaring they’d never seen the “beautiful” clip.
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The royalist captioned her video: “Remember the Queen’s Jubilee Concert? Major stars like Diana Ross, Alicia Keys, Adam Lambert and Queen, Andrea Boccelli + others. Performances from Phantom of the Opera, Hamilton, The Lion King & Joseph.
“Then out steps a man, alone with his guitar. He takes the stage confidently & performs the most beautiful rendition of his love ballad PERFECT. No other accompaniment. Just Ed Sheeran and his perfect song.
“It was a tribute to our late Queen and Prince Philip. About midway through, a montage of film clips from their life together plays on a screen as most of us hold our breath and tears start to drop.
“Not a dry eye anywhere. Everyone near me was dead silent and afterwards, we looked at one another and sniffled. We knew we were saying goodbye. We knew they were getting us ready for the inevitable.
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“Thank you, #EdSheeran for the most amazing performance and tribute to our late Queen.
“And thank you, Ma’am, for everything.”
Fans were quick to praise the video. One wrote: “That was a lovely tribute. Thank you for posting. I’ve never seen that.”
A second said: “How have I never seen this before?! It made me cry (nicely) and thank you for sharing.” Another commented: “Beautiful, thankyou x”. While a fourth summed it up with: “Perfect.”
Speaking ahead of the performance to the BBC, Ed told presenter Anita Rani: “For me, this is kind of like a full circle, nostalgia moment because this is the event that I picked up guitar at 20 years ago after seeing Eric Clapton playing on stage.
“And then I got to play it 10 years ago for the Diamond Jubilee. It’s really really nice to be back, it’s just a great atmosphere here.
“It’s very rare you get days like this to feel patriotic. I think the last time was the Euros final when you actually felt it in the city. It’s really really nice.”
The father-of-two also said at the time he was returning back to daddy duties after the performance to have a curry with his wife Cherry Seaborn.
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