Robbie Williams 'honoured' to be performing at Royal Family's Sandringham Estate summer 2023

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5 Dec 2022, 17:43

Let Him Entertain us. Robbie Williams has landed a regal gig at the Royal Estate of Sandringham next summer. Taking place on Saturday August 26, 2023, it's the first live music event of its kind to be hosted at the Norfolk grounds owned by the Royal Family.

The former Take That star told fans he was 'honoured' to be performing at the event, which is his only outdoor headlining gig next year. He wrote on social media: "So honoured to be playing this show at the Sandringham Estate in the UK Summer x."

Giles Cooper, promoter at the event’s organisers Heritage Live, said: “It’s been an ambition of us all at Heritage Live to stage a concert for the legendary Robbie Williams and the thing about Robbie is that he keeps getting better and better!

“His 2022 arena tour show was the best I’d ever seen him perform and for me he’s the best entertainer since Elvis! We can’t wait! It will be the most magical concert in the most amazing surroundings that’ll live in our memories forever!”

Tickets go on sale at 9am this Friday (December 9), and a pre-sale on Thursday December 8. You can buy yours here.

On his plans for 2023, the pop star told Italian radio station Il Venerdì di Repubblica: “My long-term goals are many and varied. I want to build a hotel. I want to start a chain of stores. I’ve got some clothing that I’m going to be doing. I’ve written a TV show. There’s the film coming out. I’m so busy but I’m super-grateful these things keep happening to me.”

Talking about the criticism of him performing at Doha Golf Club in Qatar due to the country’s poor human rights record, he explained: “I don’t condone any abuses of human rights anywhere. But, that being said, if we’re not condoning human rights abuses anywhere, then it would be the shortest tour the world has ever known: I wouldn’t even be able to perform in my own kitchen."

He added: “Anybody leaving messages saying ‘no to Qatar’ are doing so on Chinese technology. It would be hypocritical of me to not go because of the places that I do go to. You get this microscope that goes ‘OK, these are the baddies, and we need to rally against them’. I think that the hypocrisy there is that if we take that case in this place, we need to apply that unilaterally to the world.

“Then if we apply that unilaterally to the world, nobody can go anywhere. What we’re saying is: ‘You behave like us, or we will annex you from society. Behave like us, because we’ve got it right.’”

Here's more on Rob's upcoming documentary about his career and life.