famous and the event ranked
with Ascot as ‘among the
favourite fashionable
meetings of the season’. The
regatta started in 1839 –
considerably later than the
first formal Thames regatta
held in London in 1775 – and
received royal patronage in
1851, running from Regatta
Island to Henley Bridge.
Soon everyone it seemed
wanted to come to Henley so
that eventually the river was
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