Countess of Wessex to open ballet studios

Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is opening ballet studios named after her in Southwark next week.

Seven studios and a studio theatre will form part of the Central School of Ballet at Paris Gardens. The school relocated there from Clerkenwell in 2017 following a £9m fundraising campaign.

The Countess has been patron of the Central School of Ballet since 2003.