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11 unusual facts about His Majesty


Amanda Muggleton

Out of Marvellous Party! came Darling It's Noel, produced by International Concert Attractions and directed by Rodney Fisher at the Sydney Opera House in May 2004 and at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth in June 2004.

Dick Donald

Donald senior expanded the family business by opening a chain of cinemas, and also owned His Majesty's Theatre and an ice rink in the city.

Fort Belvedere, Surrey

Edward held his final meetings with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and signed the Instrument of Abdication, witnessed by his brothers, at the fort.

Gareth Mitchelson

Other notable performances have included participation in many Folk Festivals and Fiddlers Rallys, in the Capitol Theatre and His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, several Royal performances, commission pieces for Scottish Dance Traditions (Generating Heat & Funky Faeries), twice appearing at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and several TV Hogmanay Shows.

His Majesty, McDuck

The panel in which Cornelius Coot's journal is removed from a vault in the Coot Library for reading is a direct homage to a scene from Citizen Kane.

His Majesty's Dragon

The Reliant lands in Madeira, where Laurence and Temeraire await the Aerial Corps' response concerning their enlisting in the Corps; they are eventually ordered to a training camp at Loch Laggan in Scotland.

His Majesty's Theatre

On its centenary in 2006, the theatre was "twinned" with His Majesty's Theatre in Perth, Western Australia.

Il crociato in Egitto

After its successful Venetian premiere, Il Crociato in Egitto was the first of Meyerbeer's operas to be performed in London at His Majesty's Theatre on 3 June 1825, also with Velluti in the cast.

Presidential Mansion, Athens

Another extension was needed when Princess Sophia of Greece (now queen of Spain, and daughter of King Paul and Queen Frederika) became engaged to His Royal Highness The Prince Juan Carlos of Spain (now His Majesty The King of Spain).

Schoolhill railway station

Closed in 1937, the few remains of the station lie adjacent to His Majesty's Theatre's car park.

Temeraire

His Majesty's Dragon, released as Temeraire in the UK, the first book in the series.


Adrian Ross

He also wrote lyrics for the one-act comic opera, Weather or No (1896), which played as a companion piece to The Mikado at the Savoy Theatre, as well as several other Savoy operas, such as Mirette (1894), His Majesty, or The Court of Vignolia (1897), The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (1897) and The Lucky Star (1899).

Charles H. Workman

He later created the part of Adam in F. C. Burnand and R. C. Lehmann's His Majesty (1897; appearing briefly as King Ferdinand when George Grossmith abandoned the part, until Henry Lytton took over).

Constance Collier

On 27 December 1906, Beerbohm Tree's extravagant revival of Antony and Cleopatra opened at His Majesty's Theatre, with Tree as Mark Antony and Constance Collier as Cleopatra, a performance for which she received much critical praise.

George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning

He retired from the army in 1907, but remained in the Territorial Force as commanding officer of the Lothian and Border Horse, and served as His Majesty´s Lieutenant of the County of Berwick from 1901 until he died.

Her Majesty's Australian Ship

This prefix is derived from HMS (Her/His Majesty's Ship), the prefix used by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and can be equally applied to warships and shore bases (as Australia follows the British tradition of referring to naval establishments as ships or stone frigates).

Historical lists of Privy Counsellors

These are lists of Privy Counsellors of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the reorganisation in 1679 of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council to the present day.

J. T. Grein

The influences were not all one way: in April 1907, Grein organised a visit by Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company – based at His Majesty's Theatre – to Hanover and Berlin.

Luchazes

The Municipality is now under the traditional authority of a Mbunda Paramount Chief Mwene Kangamba, who ascribes to the Mbunda Monarch, His Majesty, King Mbunda III Mbandu Lifuti restored on 16 August 2008, in Moxico, Angola.

Naomi Novik

Novik's first novel, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire in the UK), which commences the Temeraire series, is an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars in a "Flintlock Fantasy" world in which dragons are abundant and are used in aerial combat.

Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd Baronet

He entered the British diplomatic service in 1906 and served in junior capacities in Constantinople, Tokyo, Paris and Tehran.

Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen

The auditorium was rebuilt in 1897 by theatre architect Frank Matcham, but then closed temporarily in 1906, following the opening of the larger His Majesty's Theatre.