Lady Jane will also light the first beacon opposite the London Eye on May 8, exactly 80 years since the Allies accepted Nazi Germany’s surrender in the Second World War.
A Pipe Major preparing for 80 days of piping to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day has urged people to “stop for a few minutes and reflect” on the human cost of war.
Lady Jane said the difference between the music Mr Liddell wrote for last year’s D-Day commemoration – called Audax – and Celebratum reflects the difference between the two events.
“I think everybody needs to stop for a few minutes and reflect on what exactly it does mean, how many people died, how many young men lost their arms and their limbs, and to be perfectly honest, are still doing so,” she said.
Both Lady Jane and Mr Liddell have been involved in writing and playing music for a number of recent official events, including the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the King’s coronation, and the 80th anniversary of D-Day last year.
