Average 2.1m viewers watched weekend’s show compared with 3.5m over recent years
Viewers stayed away from the Last Night of the Proms after the row over whether the lyrics to Rule, Britannia! would be sung on air, with Saturday’s broadcast attracting its lowest audience for many years.
An average of 2.1 million viewers watched the weekend’s performance from the Royal Albert Hall, which went ahead without an audience at the venue due to coronavirus restrictions. This is well down on the average of 3.5 million viewers who watched the show in recent years.
