| What A Performance! The Royals & The Movies |
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| Written by Joanne Leyland | |
| Tuesday, 14 November 2006 | |
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Page 3 of 5  As to be expected, this royal film performance was far grander, a full orchestra playing as the movie was shown to an aged Victoria and her guests.Despite their early eagerness to embrace the new medium, it was to be some years before there was another 'royal film performance'. Almost two decades later, on August 4th 1916, Marlborough House once again played host to the world of cinema when, within the splendours of the State Dining Room, the dowager Queen Alexandra enjoyed a private viewing of Cecil Hepworth's movie, Coming Through The Rye. A year later, Hepworth was enjoying yet more royal patronage when he visited Buckingham Palace for the first command performance of a film before a reigning sovereign. Here, King George V (no great fan of the Arts) and Queen Mary were treated to a private showing of Tom Brown's Schooldays. 
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