Queen’s beloved pop icon meets with Italian group (6,7)
I believe the answer is:
prince consort
'queen's beloved' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'pop icon meets with italian group' is the wordplay.
'pop icon meets' becomes 'prince' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with italian' becomes 'con' ('with' in Italian).
'group' becomes 'sort'.
'prince'+'con'+'sort'='PRINCE-CONSORT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for prince consort that I've seen before include "Albert, say" , "Albert was one once" , "Husband of reigning monarch" , "Albert, for example" , "Husband of 1 across, for example" .)