For some reason The Royal Tournament came into our conversation today. I was aware that it had stopped, but not really why, and I also hadn't twigged they relaunched it under a different name for four years from 2010, before stopping again.
Seems ticket sales fell and they were making a loss.
Anyway, it ran for one heck of a long time, I now discover, and I do recall going to see it once or twice as a schoolboy in the sixties/seventies. I remember the gun runs of course, and just the spectacle of the thing.
Anyone else remember it? Would you pay to see it back, or have today's audiences "moved on"?
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