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Royal Albert Hall turns 150

March 29, 2021 at 3:29 pm Leave a comment

On Monday, 29 March, the Royal Albert Hall turns 150 years old. The famous concert hall in South Kensington was opened by Queen Victoria on this day in 1871 and named after her late husband Prince Albert who had died six years before.

But unfortunately, this is the second birthday the Hall, which has more than 5,000 seats, had on its own, without any audience.

I’m sure everybody does miss the concert hall as much as I do. I’ve been there on various occasions. I was at a “Blues fest” concert with Robert Plant (ex-Led Zeppelin), a Patrick Bruel concert, a Christmas concert with traditional carols singing along, and a classical “Proms” concert in the summer of 2018. We also had afternoon tea before one of these concerts, and I remember that we walked past the hall to watch hundreds of people queue for a ticket for the “Last night of the Proms” which we attended in Hyde Park. Our last visit came two years ago in May 2019 when we attended the “Leadership Conference” with Nicky Gumbel and thousands of Alpha leaders from all over the world.

Due to the impossibility of welcoming any crowds to the hall, the Royal Albert Hall released a video to mark the occasion by celebrating the people behind the scenes who’ve been working behind closed doors this whole time, keeping an eye on the Royal Albert Hall and making sure that your room will be ready for the return of the audience to the Hall.

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