Queen ‘excited’ to be Patron of English National Ballet

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Queen Camilla visited the English National Ballet’s Mulryan Centre for Dance. This marked The Queen’s first official visit to the English National Ballet since Her Majesty became Patron earlier that year. Her Majesty watched rehearsals of a new Nutcracker and Akram Khan’s reimagined version of Giselle. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00How lovely to see you again. Thank you so much for coming.

00:08My pleasure.

00:30Very professional. They are.

00:55Much better than we are.

00:57I'm sure they're not.

00:59How long have you been here?

01:01I think nine years now.

01:04I'd just like to introduce you to Gerry Tyrion.

01:08Hi.

01:10So you're in charge of all this.

01:13Absolutely.

01:14Did you work on that lovely brooch?

01:16Yes I did.

01:17Yes, did you like it?

01:18It's really beautiful.

01:20I was waiting for an opportunity to do that.

01:22Amazing.

01:23It's really, really lovely.

01:25I love sequins and also rhinestones.

01:28This is ice queens for the Nutcracker.

01:32This piece here is the piece that you can see Durga working on.

01:36A lot of hand work and working out.

01:38Intricate designs.

01:41What we wanted to do.

01:43Fantastic.

01:44Are they reused?

01:45No.

01:46Wonderful.

01:47So you're doing the...

01:49Yes, I do all of that.

01:51There's nothing you don't know about dyeing.

01:54Not really.

01:55Well, who knows?

01:56There's always something new to learn.

01:58Dyeing all of these things.

02:00No stress.

02:12We'd like to invite you to cut our 75th anniversary cake.

02:19Does that work?

02:21Does that?

02:22Does that?

02:23Does it go all the way?

02:24No, no, no.

02:25Just a little symbolic.

02:26Oh, it's lovely.

02:27Symbolic.

02:29That looks absolutely delicious.

02:35Can I just say before I go how proud I am to be the patron of the English National Ballet.

02:42I love ballet in any form.

02:44I love dance.

02:46Actually, to be patron of this ballet, I'm patron of ballet schools.

02:52I do a bit of silk swans myself.

02:56The ladies today rather showed me up.

02:59I do love it, but it's actually...

03:02I'm very excited now to be able to say that I am actually patron of a proper ballet.

03:16I'm very excited.

03:18Oh, Jesus.

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