Speaking on BBC Radio documentary Our Queen: 90 Musical Years, she explained: “The Queen loves the theatre and musicals like Showboat, Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun. “These were the tunes that remained in one's head and were very danceable to.”
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The Queen wakes up to the sound of live bagpipes, played by a musician whose official title is “piper to the sovereign”. He plays them by her window at 9am for 15 minutes. The musician follows the Queen to the royal residences of Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Balmoral.
The Lord's My Shepherd
As part of this, the Queen listed her ten favourite pieces of music. Two hymns featured in this list. One was 'Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven' mentioned above: the other was 'The Lord's My Shepherd'.
Her Majesty's commitment to the arts and music can be traced back to her early years. At 11, then Princess Elizabeth learned to play piano and continued to play for her own enjoyment into her adult years.
She was not only totally well informed about Hamburg's role in the Beatles' career, she also told us herself how much she liked their music.
From American rappers to a classic one-hit wonder circa 2007, the Royal Playlist is full of pop gems. Along with classic performers like Fred Astaire and religious hymns, The Queen also has a soft spot for Take That's GazBaz.
"The Queen loves the theatre and musicals like Showboat, Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun," she said. "These were the tunes that remained in one's head and were very danceable to." Other sources close to the Queen told the documentary that the Monarch's taste was "mainstream", with "no airs and graces".
Their 1975 single, "Bohemian Rhapsody", was No. 1 in the UK charts for nine weeks (and a further five weeks in 1991 after Mercury's death) and is the third-biggest-selling single of all time in the UK. In the US, "Bohemian Rhapsody" hit the Billboard Top 40 charts in three different decades, reaching No.
It's all in the bag
Her bag, according to Vickers, was used by the Queen to indicate her wishes when navigating official functions. If the Queen shifted her bag from one hand to the next, it signaled that she was ready to end her current conversation.
One is the song 'Oklahoma! ' from musical Oklahoma!, and the other is Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun.
The most powerful members of the Queen's royal household don't necessarily have the most senior job titles. Lady Susan Hussey, 81, is one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, a role held by aristocrat women who act as personal assistants to the monarch.
It has previously been reported that the Queen is a fan of Downton Abbey. According to Brian Hoey, the author of At Home With The Queen, the monarch would watch the show when it aired from 2011 to 2018 and “point out things they have got wrong, partly because she is familiar with Highclere Castle, where it is filmed”.
Flash Gordon
Brian Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity in 2016. Appearing on Yahoo Movies, Blessed said that Her Majesty told him her favourite movie was pulpy sci-fi classic Flash Gordon.
Revealed: Why blue is the Queen's favourite colour... and why she doesn't like beige. Many have wondered what Her Majesty's favourite colour is - until now. Vogue magazine has studied every outfit she has worn in the last 12 months and found that blue is known as royal for a reason.
Bohemian Rhapsody has been named the most streamed song from the 20th century, overtaking Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. The Queen hit, which reached No 1 in the UK in 1975 and then again in 1991 following Freddie Mercury's death, has now been streamed 1.6bn times across services including YouTube and Spotify.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” was first made for Queen's 1975 album, A Night at the Opera. Written by Freddie Mercury, the song is Queen's greatest hit to date.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen, released as the lead single from their fourth album, A Night at the Opera (1975).
Out of all of the kids, Prince Edward, now known as the Earl of Wessex, is believed to be the Queen and Prince Philip's favorite child. In fact, it was reported that Edward's portrait was the only one in Philip's study.
The British band Queen adopted the look of glam and took it one step further with their exaggerated style of progressive rock and heavy metal. Drawing much of their musical influence from prototypical metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Queen emerged as one of the most unique and influential hard rock bands of the 1970s.
For most of her reign, the Queen was roused by the sound of bagpipes played beneath her window – at all her residences around the country. The Piper to the Sovereign for decades acted as a personal alarm clock, playing for 15 minutes each morning, as well as on state occasions.
For their 2011 royal wedding, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had Ellie Goulding perform a rendition of Elton John's Your Song for their first dance. At the reception, the English singer also treated the newlyweds to a performance of Starry Eyed, which was reportedly one of William and Kate's favorite songs.
As well as enjoying playing music Kate is also known to be a fan of the singers Leona Lewis and Ellie Goulding, according to Mr Myers. Ellie sang a version of Elton John's 'Your Song' at Kate's wedding to William in 2011.
However, unlike the Duchess of Cambridge's love of Eighties tunes such as Abba's hit 'Dancing Queen', which was played at her wedding in 2011, according to the Telegraph, Markle appears to be more of an indie/festival kid, with a penchant for listening to the likes of Dragonette and Mr Little Jeans.