Ex-Blind Busker, Penniless: I’ll Never Forget the Night Princess Kate Sat at My Battered Piano in Covent Garden The December fog in 2022 clung to Covent Garden like mustard gas in the trenches, the kind that stings the lungs and turns every breath to brass. I was seventy-one, eyes clouded white as boiled fish, fingers knotted from arthritis and cheap gin. The upright piano—salvaged from a skip behind the Royal Opera House, keys yellowed like old teeth—stood under the glass roof of the market, ch

Golden Opera Version performed in front of the British Royal Family (Singer: Katherine Jenkins) #...