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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Their Royal Highness"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Their Royal Highness")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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2123 results for: Keyword - Their Royal Highness
We found 1227 matches on Event Comments, 689 matches on Performance Title, 323 matches on Performance Comments, 3 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

251
14 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales and Princess Caroline present.] Receipts: #42 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Periander

252
27 January 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #99 5s. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

253
11 March 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit Mrs Younger. Receipts: money #73 19s.; tickets #135 3s. [The Prince, Princess Caroline, and Lady Ann Lumley present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance:

254
19 April 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Robinson. Bt Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, [Duke present. The Epilogue is printed in London Evening Post, 24 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: Essex, Rainton, Miss Robinson; Tambourine, Les Characters de la Dance-Miss Robinson

255
27 April 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #42 2s. 6d.; tickets #17 11s. [Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orestes

256
01 May 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness, the Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

257
29 October 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #176 17s. [The Prince and the Duke of Lorrain present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

258
17 November 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince, Duke of Lorrain, and Count Kinski present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

259
29 November 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince, Duke of Lorrain, and Count Kinski present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

260
08 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales, Lord Malpas, Marquis of Caernarvan present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance:

261
16 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: TThe Masques-

262
21 December 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #64 15s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

263
30 December 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness [who was present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Dance: BBallad d'Amour-Denoyer, Mrs Booth

264
05 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [who was present]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

265
05 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Benefit a Gentleman's Family in Distress. Receipts: money #71 0s. 6d.; tickets #51 15s. [Duke of Cumberland present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

266
07 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Dances also by Command of the Prince.] Receipts: #82 9s. 6d. [Prince and two eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: In afterpiece: Grand Dance of Momus (from Perseus and Andromeda)-; Hornpipe-Jones in Character of a Sailor; Tambourine-Miss Rogers

267
12 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Modish Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

268
19 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

269
26 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: RRich's Register: By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

270
02 February 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince and Princess Caroline present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: Denoyer, Essex, Lally, Thurmond, Houghton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

271
09 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #50 7s.; tickets #119 4s. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: I: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; II: The Sicilian (new)-Glover, Mrs Pelling; III: Comic Dance-Nivelon; IV: The Baulk-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

272
13 March 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: MMinuet-Denoyer, Mrs Booth

273
27 March 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron. By Command of His Royal Highness. [Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth; Scotch Dance-Miss Robinson

274
27 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Afterpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #73 5s. 6d.; tickets #72 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: A new Dance (in the Footing Manner) between a Sailor and a Country Girl by Jones-; the Sailor-Jones, the +Country Lass- Mrs Ogden

275
13 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay