{"id":31786,"date":"2022-09-09T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/?page_id=31786"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:07:24","slug":"royal-visits-2002","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/about\/chethams-history\/royal-visits\/royal-visits-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31802\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31802\" class=\"wp-image-31802 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chethams.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Prince-Charles-2003-570x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Prince-Charles-2003-570x508.jpg 570w, https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Prince-Charles-2003-1024x913.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Prince-Charles-2003-768x684.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Prince-Charles-2003-230x205.jpg 230w, https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Prince-Charles-2003.jpg 1534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HM King Charles III (then HRH Prince Charles) visits Chetham&#8217;s on his 54th Birthday &#8211; 14 November 2002<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On 14 November 2002, HM King Charles III (then HRH Prince Charles) visited Chetham\u2019s as part of its 350<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Anniversary celebrations of its incorporation as a school in 1653. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During his visit, the then Prince was met by students in the Whiteley Hall, who proceeded to sing Happy Birthday to the Royal visitor. Unbeknownst to Chetham\u2019s staff, the 6 Barbershop singers, dressed up with straw boaters, had changed the lyrics to fit in his full name &#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Charles Philip Arthur George! <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stephen Threlfall, Director of Music (1995 &#8211; 2019) commented at the time: <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;I know they&#8217;ve been practising for a while but we had no idea that they had changed the words. Happily, it went down very well and the Prince seemed to find it very amusing that they managed to get all his names when singing happy birthday.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 November 2002, HM King Charles III (then HRH Prince Charles) visited Chetham\u2019s as part of its 350th Anniversary celebrations of its incorporation as a school in 1653. \u00a0 During his visit, the then Prince was met by students in the Whiteley Hall, who proceeded to sing Happy Birthday to the Royal visitor. 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