Ryman Healthcare resident Nance Grant met the Queen three times
Nance Grant, a resident at Ryman Healthcare’s Nellie Melba Retirement Village in Wheelers Hill, Melbourne, as a soprano, was introduced to the Queen three times. She met the Queen and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the Sidney Myer Music...
Nance Grant, a resident at Ryman Healthcare’s Nellie Melba Retirement Village in Wheelers Hill, Melbourne, as a soprano, was introduced to the Queen three times.
She met the Queen and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, in Melbourne, in 1963.
At the opening of the Sydney Opera House on 20 October, 1973, the Queen watched Nance in her second Royal Command performance, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 ‘Choral’.
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During the interval we all rushed into the rehearsal room, and she was introduced to us all," Nance said.
"You felt as though she was really talking to you personally, not rushing to get onto the next person or do the next thing.
"There was no rush with her at all."
The Queen even remembered Nance.
"She came over to Neil Warren-Smith, the baritone, and I, and said ‘I think we’ve met before, haven’t we?’," Nance said.
"We both said, ‘yes ma’am’.
But Her Majesty would ‘always and forever’ be her most remarkable audience.
"She had an aura around her," she said.
