Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Wife: Everything You Need To Know About His Partner, Madeleine Gurdon, And His Last Two Marriages

• Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of Broadway’s most famous musical composers.
• The musician’s works include “Phantom Of The Opera”, “Cats” and “Jesus Christ Superstar”
• The British icon was married three times and fathered five children.

Andre Lloyd Webber suffered a tragic loss when his eldest son Nicholas died after a battle with stomach cancer at the age of 43. “I am devastated to have to announce that my beloved eldest son, Nick, passed away a few hours ago in Basingstoke hospital,” said Andrew. People on March 25, 2023. “His whole family is together and we are all totally private,” the legendary songwriter added. Thank you for all your thoughts at this difficult time.

Nicholas was Andrew’s second son from his first marriage to Sara Hughill. OR Joseph and the amazing Technicolor Dream coat The composer, born in Great Britain in 1948, would marry two more times and have a total of five children. We meet Sarah and the other two women who walked down the aisle with Andrew downstairs.

Sara Hughill

Unfortunately, not much is known about Sarah’s relationship with Andrew. The couple exchanged wedding vows on July 24, 1971 and welcomed their first child together, daughter imogeneon March 31, 1977. His son Nicholas arrived on July 2, 1979, following in his father’s footsteps and being a Grammy-nominated songwriter and record producer before his untimely death. Andrew and Sarah would divorce in 1983 after 12 years of marriage.

Sarah Brightman

Andre started working with Sarah Brightmana British pop star 13 years his junior when he auditioned for cats in 1981, according to his 2018 memoirs unmasked, Of People. ‘A private meeting was arranged at my flat in London,’ wrote Andrew, adding: ‘I thought she had a nice voice and that was it. It was two years before I realized what a good singer she is.

At the time, Andrew and Sarah were married, but romance soon blossomed between the two, as they were professionally inseparable when she became the lead actress in his blockbuster hit. The Phantom of the Opera. A relationship that started in 1983, according to Andrew, which led to a proposal. “Well, it wasn’t so much a proposition as ‘we’re in love, we’re both married, what the hell are we going to do about it?'” He wrote in the memoir, according to People. “We agreed that Sarah would meet my mother, I would meet her parents, and if we survived the ordeal, I would break the news to my first Sarah.”

Andrew and Sarah would marry in 1984 and divorce six years later. They had no children together.

Madeleine Gurdon

The end of Andrew’s relationship with Sarah did not come without complications. The famous musician had started another romance while he was still married to the muse. “I met Madeleine Gurdon in 1989 through mutual friends when my marriage to Sarah Brightman became difficult,” she wrote exposedOf People. “There was publicity about Sarah’s relationship with the original Ghost keyboard player, and I love her as much as I still do, things were never the same for me after that.”

At the time of Andrew and Madeliene’s meeting, she was described as “one of the best equestrians to ride on the set of Princess Anne,” according to People. The report added, “The convent-educated daughter of a retired brigadier, she was a leading three-day rider for nearly a decade.”

The couple would wed on February 9, 1991, adding three more children to Andrew’s brood: Alastair, William AND Isabella. They have been inseparable ever since, with Madeleine alongside Andrew as he overcame his harrowing battle with prostate cancer in 2010.

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