Cate Blanchett attended a reception for the staff, actors, and supporters of the National Theatre. It was hosted by Britain’s Queen Camilla at the Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Cate joined the National Theatre Board last November. She has performed at the National Theatre in 2019 with the Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other directed by Katie Mitchell.

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Reception for National Theatre

The Queen was surprised with a scene from one of her favourite plays as Hollywood stars gathered at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the National Theatre.

She was joined by A-listers including two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, We Live In Time star Andrew Garfield and Gavin and Stacey creator and star James Corden, along with Downton Abbey star Jim Carter and his wife Imelda Staunton, who starred as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, and Lesley Manville, who played Princess Margaret.

Camilla became patron of the National Theatre in 2022. The role was previously held by the Duchess of Sussex, from 2019 to 2021 and prior to that, by Queen Elizabeth II.

With a global audience reach of 19 million on stage, on tour, in schools, and cinema the National Theatre is active in every local authority in the UK and works with hundreds of schools and communities to inspire creativity, develop skills and create pathways for careers in theatre.

As she departed the event, Camilla told guests: “That was a very lovely occasion.”

The National Theatre hopes to raise £125 million to upgrade and add a skills centre to its Grade II-listed home on London’s Southbank, an example of brutalist architecture which in 1998 was likened to a “nuclear power station” by then Prince Charles.

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Source: Hello!