Arts and sport in the spotlight on a royal day of celebration

MURRAY Edwards College and the Cambridge University Real Tennis Club welcomed His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh as part of a special day celebrating the arts, education, and sport.

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Cambridge University Real Tennis Club

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The visit last Thursday (October 2) began at the college, where His Royal Highness toured the Women's Art Collection - the largest collection of modern and contemporary art by women in Europe.

He was welcomed by Dr Rachel Polonsky, acting president and chair of the art committee, before meeting civic guests including Councillor Dinah Pounds, Mayor of Cambridge; Paul Bristow, Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; and Councillor Peter McDonald, chair of Cambridgeshire County Council.

Once inside the college, the Duke was taken by the curator Harriet Loffler on a private tour of the collection, which includes more than 600 works by artists such as Dame Paula Rego DBE, Maggi Hambling CBE, Lubaina Himid CBE, and Judy Chicago. The collection, founded in 1986, is displayed against the background of the college's distinctive modernist architecture and has been accredited by Arts Council England since 2018.