article_snippet.sent: And Princess Margaret recorded a secret song tape .
article_snippet.sent: The Queen and Princess Margaret recorded a secret tape of children
article_snippet.sent: ’s songs as a touching gift for the Queen Mother on Princess Margaret 90th birthday, it has been revealed.
article_snippet.sent: Pianist and composer Laurie Holloway has told for the first time how Princess Margaret Princess Margaret phoned Princess Margaret with the idea, days before the Queen Mother’s milestone birthday in August 1990.
article_snippet.sent: There was also a sound engineer who I think The Queen and Princess Margaret had got in from the BBC’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Holloway said the Queen, then 64, and Princess Margaret, then 59, wanted to sing quite unusual children’s songs.
article_snippet.sent: The Queen and Princess Margaret rehearsed The Queen and Princess Margaret a few times and then The Queen and Princess Margaret recorded The Queen and Princess Margaret in one take each.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Holloway, 77, musical director on Strictly Come Dancing for its first three series, said the Royal sisters sang ‘very well, beautifully in fact’ during the two-hour recording session.
article_snippet.sent: Sadly, the cassette went missing after the Queen Mother’s death in 2002, although Mr Holloway wonders if a copy might still exist somewhere.