--- title: Downton Abbey Theme Song Video: Dad Grants Deceased Daughter's Wish description: Listen to Anna van Keulen beautifully play Downton Abbey's theme on the piano canonical: https://time.com/3548539/grieving-father-daughter-famous-downton-abbey-theme-video/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-30T16:35:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:13.201Z og:title: Grieving Dad Grants Deceased 13-Year-Old Daughter's Wish to Be Famous og:description: Listen to Anna van Keulen beautifully play Downton Abbey's theme on the piano og:url: https://time.com/3548539/grieving-father-daughter-famous-downton-abbey-theme-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Grieving Dad Grants Deceased 13-Year-Old Daughter's Wish to Be Famous twitter:description: Listen to Anna van Keulen beautifully play Downton Abbey's theme on the piano twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Grieving Dad Grants Deceased 13-Year-Old Daughter's Wish to Be Famous by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 30, 2014 4:35 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 30, 2014 4:35 PM UTC Two weeks ago, 13-year-old Anna van Keulen died from injuries she sustained during a bike accident on her way to school in the Netherlands. On Tuesday, her grieving father Niek van Keulen decided to do what he could to [fulfill at least one of his deceased daughter’s wishes](http://mashable.com/2014/10/29/piano-famous-annavan-keulen/): To be famous. He [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Niekvankeulen/status/527137981560537090) out a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJltZEOGJPg) of Anna playing the theme song from _Downton Abbey_ on the piano, and the heartfelt performance immediately went viral. Less than two days later, the video has been viewed almost 1.5 million times. A day after the video went up, van Keulen [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Niekvankeulen/status/527381404825681920), according to Google translate, “It’s overwhelming … thanks all. Anna’s goal is reached: she’s famous.” But he wants to keep the attention directed to his daughter rather than himself. “Dear journalists: please stop calling,” he [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Niekvankeulen/status/527381832900550656). “I do not want \[to be\] on radio or TV, it’s not about me, it’s about Anna. Thank you.” (h/t: [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2014/10/29/piano-famous-annavan-keulen/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3548539/grieving-father-daughter-famous-downton-abbey-theme-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3548539/grieving-father-daughter-famous-downton-abbey-theme-video/"},"headline":"Grieving Dad Grants Deceased 13-Year-Old Daughter's Wish to Be Famous","datePublished":"2014-10-30T16:35:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:13.201Z","description":"Listen to Anna van Keulen beautifully play Downton Abbey's theme on the piano","url":"https://time.com/3548539/grieving-father-daughter-famous-downton-abbey-theme-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","downton abbey","viral","video","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3548539/grieving-father-daughter-famous-downton-abbey-theme-video/","name":"Grieving Dad Grants Deceased 13-Year-Old Daughter's Wish to Be Famous"}}]}] ```