{"id":202489,"date":"2025-06-21T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202489\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:12:16","slug":"by-royal-appointment-coming-to-mayflower-theatre-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202489\/","title":{"rendered":"By Royal Appointment coming to Mayflower Theatre Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-first-paragraph\">\n  Take a look at showbiz royalty playing members of the Royal Family in the\u00a0funny, poignant and celebratory new play By Royal Appointment, which comes to Mayflower Theatre next month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anne Reid, Caroline Quentin, James Dreyfus and James Wilby star in the show\u00a0about the kind of power that only a Queen can wield.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She charms the world through coats and admonishes her family through a carefully chosen hat, but Queen Elizabeth II\u00a0herself is uninterested in fashion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Nobby Clark Photographer) <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatbritishlife.co.uk\/news\/25236267.theatre-review-pride-prejudice-sort-mayflower-theatre-southampton\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatre review: Pride &amp; Prejudice (sort of), Mayflower Theatre, Southampton<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her look is managed by her designer, her milliner and most powerful of all, her dresser who was a working-class girl who goes from advising the Queen on the colour of her lipsticks to the real power behind the throne. But the dresser, like all royal favourites, is living on borrowed time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  By Royal Appointment\u00a0is a behind the scenes peek into the world of our most popular monarch and the image she presented to the world, starring national treasure\u00a0Anne Reid\u00a0as The Queen, doyen of stage and screen\u00a0Caroline Quentin\u00a0as The Dresser, with Olivier award-winning\u00a0James Dreyfus\u00a0as The milliner and Poldark\u00a0legendary\u00a0James Wilby\u00a0as the designer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Nobby Clark Photographer) The new play is written by\u00a0Daisy Goodwin,\u00a0who created the hit ITV series\u00a0Victoria,\u00a0and directed by former Artistic Director of Shakespeare\u2019s Globe,\u00a0Dominic Dromgoole.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It runs from July 22 to 26.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayflower.org.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mayflower.org.uk<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Nobby Clark Photographer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take a look at showbiz royalty playing members of the Royal Family in the\u00a0funny, poignant and celebratory new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-202489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114721295998922660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}