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3 unusual facts about Children of the Chapel


Children of the Chapel

Their special school within St James's Palace no longer operates; the boys all attend the City of London School and receive a choral scholarship from The Queen.

Dido, Queen of Carthage

The title page attributes the play to Marlowe and Nashe, and also states that the play was acted by the Children of the Chapel.

The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses

Daniel did well from the masque; he was made, firstly, a Groom of the Queen's Chamber and later a chamberlain; and the Queen gave him the job of licensing plays for the Children of the Chapel, the troupe of child actors that Anne had just taken into her patronage as the Children of the Queen's Revels.


Richard Gunnell

Their plan was to organize a troupe of boy players, comparable to the boys' companies of the previous generation, the Children of the Chapel and the Children of Paul's.


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