King Charles’s playlist is fun, spirited and slightly eccentric

The list will presumably have been vetted to the hilt, but could still backfire if someone drags out an inappropriate quote from one of the featured artists calling for republican rebellion. You would have to be a musical misanthrope to resist the uplifting delight of Bob Marley’s Jamaican anthem Could You Be Loved, but the reggae powerhouse was also a radically socialist Rastafarian whose songs include the rather more fiery Revolution, I Shot the Sheriff and Burnin’ and Lootin’.

As a collection, it is a random but cheerful Commonwealth jamboree, a cross-section of light disco foot tappers (who doesn’t love Montserratian musician Arrow’s 1983 Caribbean classic Hot Hot Hot?) with a baffling dose of reheated Canadian swing (Michael Bublé’s sentimental Haven’t Met You Yet), British pub rock (Jools Holland and Ruby Turner boogie-woogiefied My Country Man) and assorted world music selections to make the distant relatives feel at home (Ghanaian star Daddy Lumba’s Mpempem Do Me).

One thing we already know about the King’s music taste is that he was a big fan of bountiful 1970s US soul trio The Three Degrees, and once named 1978 hit Givin’ Up, Givin’ In as his favourite song. They were even guests at his first wedding but sadly the older, perhaps wiser King has turned his back on his former disco sweethearts, preferring his late mother’s alleged favourite Diana Ross to represent the former colonies with frothy dance classic Upside Down.

There is genuinely a lot of joy in his selections. It is lightweight, sunny, relentlessly upbeat and culturally inclusive. I might not recommend putting it on at a party lest you confuse the revellers but anything that includes the imperious Grace Jones demolishing La Vie en rose is all right by me.