Prince George must wait for personal lullaby The Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, is to make his first public appearance this week, after enduring several months of cancer treatment and the news of his former companion's death. Sadly, the composer will not be returning with a lullaby for the monarch's first great-grandson. Prince George of Cambridge may not have a poem in his honour, either. Last month, the Poet Laureate's agent told Mandrake that Carol Ann Duffy was unlikely to write an ode. "She is away at the moment, so she won't be doing it at this time," the agent said. He will make his comeback at the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival this week before travelling to Italy, where his work is to be performed at the Livorno Music Festival. "I feel much better," says Sir Peter, whose former boyfriend, Colin Parkinson, was found dead in July. It has been a hard few months, but I'm optimistic over the future. Before he was poet laureate, Ted Hughes wrote a christening poem for William, A Zodiac In The Shape Of A Crown, which described the Prince's horoscope in detail.