Andrew Lloyd-Webber has shared his fond memories of the Queen ahead of her historic state funeral, saying he and the monarch had the “occasional chat” over the years, but also the “odd disagreement” – over Victorian architecture. The composer, 74, was speaking to Huw Edwards on the BBC as some guests were filtering slowly into Westminster Abbey to remember the late monarch on Monday morning, before a committal service at Windsor Castle.
Lord Lloyd-Webber has a long history with the royal family and spoke of his meetings with the Queen, which included having written a musical for her at the request of her son Prince Edward to celebrate her 60th birthday.
He told Edwards when asked what today means: “It is really a day where we all have to reflect on one of the most remarkable women that anybody will ever see. I think she represented stability at a time when there has been so much change and I think the outpouring that we’ve seen in the last week, I’ve been in New York actually last week and… it’s extraordinary, you know, how even there it has deeply, deeply touched people, and all I can say is that I feel very, very, very lucky and privileged to have actually met what has to be be probably the most remarkable woman of the past 50 years, 70 years – what more can one say?”
