The Steam Railway, the Queen's Composer and the Gay Wedding Day That Was Forced Off the Rails

Daily MailJanuary 06, 2007

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ONE of his most famous works is an enchanting piece of music entitled An Orkney Wedding.

But that seems unlikely for Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, after a local council banned him from marrying his gay lover in a civil ceremony on the Orkney island of Sanday his home for the last nine years.

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The Steam Railway, the Queen's Composer and the Gay Wedding Day That Was Forced Off the Rails

Sir Peter, 72, and his partner of six years, builder Colin Parkinson, 52, planned to tie the knot in front of celebrity guests from the music world next month.

But Orkney Isl...

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