History of the RAD: The 2020s

2020

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall announced her new role as Vice Patron of the RAD in a special video call with the RAD’s President, Dame Darcey Bussell DBE, and Silver Swans Ambassador, Angela Rippon CBE. The Duchess joined Her Majesty The Queen, who had been Patron of the RAD since 1953.

Phot by David Tett.

It is the RAD’s 100th birthday but due to Covid, we delay celebrations and mark our centenary in 2021.

Photo: Dame Margot Fonteyn’s speech at the RAD Diamond Jubilee dinner. “It was on December 31, 1920, that the event we celebrate tonight took place. On that date here in London what is now the Royal Academy of Dancing came into being.”