The Royal Gala Premiere of Peter Pan
On 17th June 2009 Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales & the Duchess of Cornwall attended a very special Gala Premiere of Peter Pan in aid of Children & the Arts.
They were joined by celebrities including Children & the Arts’ Ambassadors Sharon Osbourne, Richard E Grant and Adrian Lester, guests from America including Joan Rivers and Brett Ratner, and most importantly, over 300 children who were given the opportunity to attend for free. All the guests enjoyed a glass of champagne (or lost boys & girls punch for the children) before watching the performance in the state of the art Neverland Pavilion.
Children & the Arts Chief Executive Jeremy Newton said:
“Working in an office at Kensington Palace is not only a great pleasure and privilege – it’s also encouraged me to return, for the first time in several decades, to “Peter Pan”, a novel in which J M Barrie tries, in his own words “to draw a map of a child’s mind”. The map he draws shares many features with Kensington Gardens, where he met the Llewellyn Davies children and invented for them the stories which were eventually sewn together to form the book. And so it felt entirely appropriate that the first dramatization of Peter Pan to be performed in its ‘home location’ should be marked by a Royal Gala in aid of Children & the Arts. What transpired was a magical evening of theatre and story-telling enjoyed by children and adults alike. We were delighted to be given the opportunity to be involved in the event and, through it, to raise sufficient funds to engage thousands more children in our Programmes.”
Many thanks to the evening’s supporters:
Perrier Jouët
Quintessentially
Van Cleef & Arpels