Fans of the UK’s greatest repertory cinema, London’s Prince Charles, may have been wondering what will happen to its name now that the actual Prince Charles is on the verge of becoming a king. Will we all be booking tickets to singalongs and movie marathons at the King Charles Cinema, or ‘KCC’ for short?
But while the actual Prince Charles is no more, the cinema will be sticking with its name. That message now adorns its brand-new marquee.
Not now, not ever! https://t.co/IqnDOFy4xQ pic.twitter.com/UUY2F9wXwk
— The Prince Charles Cinema (@ThePCCLondon) May 3, 2023
The Prince Charles Cinema has been through a name change in the past. When it first opened as a basement theatre in 1931, it went by ‘The Prince Charles Theatre’.
It subsequently changed its name to Prince Charles Cinema in 1969 when the Star Cinema chain took over the premises and turned it into a picture house.
And with all due respect to the new monarch, the cinema has no plans to change again. ‘In the immortal words of The Kurgan,’ says a PCC spokesperson, ‘there can be only one’.
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