🩰 The Queen Consort presents The Royal Academy of Dance’s highest honour - The Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award - to Mikhail Baryshnikov in recognition of his lifetime contribution to ballet and the wider world of dance. The Award was instituted in 1953 to celebrate The late Queen's Coronation, and also marked the year Her Majesty became Patron of the Academy, succeeding her grandmother Queen Mary. In 2020, The then Duchess of Cornwall became RAD's Vice-Patron.