Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,2 mins

The descant for a royal wedding

Soul Music

Available for over a year

Marion Dodd, whose grandfather wrote the descant to Crimond, and Harriet Bowes Lyon recount how her mother Lady Margaret Colville taught the descant to the Queen and Princess Margaret and was later summoned to Westminster Abbey to sing it when, two days before the royal wedding, the descant music could not be found.

Programme Website
More episodes