Rain didn’t dampen the spirits of NZ opera star Isabella Moore who mingled with royalty at King Charles III’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. She tells SPY about representing the Pacific at the event, and how life in London is going. New Zealand born, Samoan multiple award-winning opera singer and celebrated model, Isabella Moore, was honoured to be invited to King Charles III’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace last month, but it was lucky she had an umbrella.
“Unfortunately, in true London fashion , the grey skies opened up and we were all absolutely soaked,” Moore tells Spy. Invitations to the garden party for the soprano and her husband of one year, baritone Benson Wilson, came after they wowed guests by performing the Samoan classic ‘Tofa mai feleni’ at the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey, celebrating 75 years. The Queen and the Prince of Wales were in attendance.
At the garden party, Moore wanted to represent the Pacific and turned heads in a hand painted Tahitian-inspired design by PIA, paired with Samoan inspired earrings, hair accessory and necklace. “The dress was gifted to me by my mother, along with the accessories,” says Moore. “It’s very hard to get Pasifika fashion and crafts in the UK , so I’m very lucky my mum helped me out for the occasion.
” Prince William, 41, hosted on behalf of his father King Charles , who is taking a break from public duties while undergoing treatment for prostate cancer . Moore says other roya.
