Playlist to celebrate King's coronation featured Dizzee Rascal track

Official Government playlist compiled to celebrate King Charles’ coronation featured a track by grime artist Dizzee Rascal despite his conviction for assaulting his ex-fiancee

• Rapper Dizzee Rascal was listed on an official playlist for the King’s Coronation
• This was despite the grime artist’s conviction for domestic violence last April 
• Others on list are The Beatles, Boney M, Kate Bush, Spice Girls and Harry Styles

An official Government playlist compiled to celebrate the King’s coronation featured a track by grime artist Dizzee Rascal – despite his domestic violence conviction.

The musician lost an appeal last week after being found guilty in April of assaulting his ex-fiancee, Cassandra Jones.

Dizzee Rascal’s track Dance Wiv Me, featuring DJ Calvin Harris and singer Chrom3, was originally one of 28 songs on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s public Coronation Celebration Playlist on Spotify.

It was removed later on Monday, but neither the DCMS nor Buckingham Palace has commented as to why it was first included.

The Queen Consort, who will also be anointed and crowned at the coronation on May 6, has determinedly campaigned against domestic violence for years.

An official Government playlist compiled to celebrate the King’s coronation featured a track by grime artist Dizzee Rascal – despite his domestic violence conviction.

The musician lost an appeal last week after being found guilty in April of assaulting his ex-fiancee, Cassandra Jones (pictured)

Other hits on the playlist, which runs for one hour and 56 minutes, include The Beatles’ Come Together, Boney M’s Daddy Cool, Harry Styles’ Treat People With Kindness, Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill, the Spice Girls’ Say You’ll Be There and the appropriately titled King by Years And Years.

SONGS TO USHER IN THE START OF A NEW MONARCH’S REIGN 

The artists featured on the Government’s Official Playlist for the King’s Coronation are:

The Beatles – Come Together

Boney M – Daddy Cool

Coldplay – A Sky Full of Stars

David Bowie – Let’s Dance

Ed Sheeran – Celestial

Elbow – One Day Like This

Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky

Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyes

Emeli Sande – Starlight

George Ezra – Dance All over Me

Grace Jones – Slave To The Rhythm

Harry Styles – Treat People With Kindness

Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill

Madness – Our House

Michael Buble – It’s a Beautiful Day

Pet Shop Boys – All over the World

Queen – We Are The Champions

Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart – People Get ready

Sam Ryder – Space Man

Spandau Ballet – Gold

Spice Girls – Say You’ll Be There

Take That – Shine

The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset

The Proclaimers – 500 Miles

The Who – Love Reign O’Er Me

Tom Jones – Green Green Grass of Home

Years & Years – King

 Source: Spotify

The compilation appears as a link on the new official coronation website – coronation.gov.uk – under Toolkit, a range of materials designed to help the nation celebrate the King’s crowning.

Monday marks three months until the high-profile event, which forms part of a weekend of festivities.

Dizzee Rascal, whose real name is Dylan Mills, was found guilty after a trial of assaulting Ms Jones by pressing his forehead against hers and pushing her to the floor during a ‘chaotic’ row after he barged into her south London home in June 2021.

After the 38-year-old lost his appeal last week, Ms Jones said in a statement that the verdict shows ‘wealth and status cannot be used to silence women’ and that ‘support is out there’.

Camilla has been an outspoken campaigner against domestic violence.

In November, she hosted a major reception at Buckingham Palace, where she called for an end to ‘heinous crimes’ committed against women and girls.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be invited to King Charles’ coronation, with palace officials already preparing for their attendance.

There is a ‘working assumption’ that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with receive an invitation to attend the state ceremony to crown King Charles as sovereign, palace insiders told The Sun.

There had been fears that Harry and Meghan’s attendance would seek to upstage and diminish the sincerity of the high-profile ceremony – especially as the Royal Family still get to grips with the groundbreaking revelations from their Netflix series and Harry’s memoir.

But coronation organisers are continuing to plan for the event under the assumption that both Harry and Meghan will attend.

Official invitations to King Charles’s coronation will be sent out to world leaders and dignitaries later this month. Around 2,000 people will be invited to the high-profile event in May, a fraction of the 8,000 at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953.

But there is every assumption that Meghan and Harry will be in attendance.

Yesterday, it was revealed two thrones will be made for the King and Queen Consort’s coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

Dizzee Rascal’s track Dance Wiv Me, featuring DJ Calvin Harris and singer Chrom3, was originally one of 28 songs on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s public Coronation Celebration Playlist on Spotify

Around 2,000 people will be invited to the high-profile event in May where the King and Queen Consort will be crowned 

Two new chairs were made for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II – the Chair of Estate and the Throne Chair

The crowning and anointing – the most sacred part of the ceremony – will take place with the monarch sitting in the historic Coronation Chair.

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But each monarch also has a Throne Chair – unique to them – for the enthronement part of the ancient ritual, which takes place on a raised dais in Westminster Abbey.

Unlike Prince Philip, Camilla will be crowned alongside the monarch, although she is expected to be seated at a lower level.

The London firm which made the late Queen’s thrones, White Allom and Company, is no longer in operation. Sources say the royal task could now fall to a team of specialist craftsmen trained through the Prince’s Foundation.

A Palace source said: ‘There is always a new throne for a new monarch and this will be no exception.’

It is also expected to carry the Tudor Crown, rather than St Edward’s Crown which was featured on the late Queen’s logo.

Two new chairs were made for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II – the Chair of Estate and the Throne Chair.

The King is also expected to abide by tradition and use the Coronation Chair, commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I.

He will be the 27th monarch to be crowned in the chair, believed to be the oldest piece of furniture in the United Kingdom still used for its original purpose.

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