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==100th anniversary== In 1905, there were events up and down the country to commemorate the centenary, although none were attended by any member of the Royal Family, apparently to avoid upsetting the French, with whom the United Kingdom had recently entered the ''[[Entente cordiale]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Review of "Nelson Remembered β The Nelson Centenary 1905" by David Shannon |url=http://www.rjerrard.co.uk/royalnavy/broadside/broadside2008.htm |access-date=12 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025095810/http://www.rjerrard.co.uk/royalnavy/broadside/broadside2008.htm |archive-date=25 October 2012}}</ref> King [[Edward VII]] did support the ''Nelson Centenary Memorial Fund'' of the [[British and Foreign Sailors Society]], which sold Trafalgar centenary souvenirs marked with the [[Royal cypher]]. A gala was held on 21 October at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in aid of the fund, which included a specially commissioned film by [[Alfred John West]] entitled ''Our Navy''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sea Salts and Celluloid |website=user29269.vs.easily.co.uk |url=http://user29269.vs.easily.co.uk/Nelson.htm |access-date=12 April 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023081423/http://user29269.vs.easily.co.uk/Nelson.htm |archive-date=23 October 2012 }}</ref> The event ended with ''[[God Save the King]]'' and ''[[La Marseillaise]]''.<ref>{{cite web |first=Antoine |last=Capet |date=22 January 2008 |title=Review of Hoock, Holger, ed., ''History, Commemoration and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805β2005'' |publisher=H-Albion, H-Review |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=14022 |via=www.h-net.org |access-date=22 July 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718142851/https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=14022 |archive-date=18 July 2019}}</ref> The first performance of Sir [[Henry Wood]]'s ''[[Fantasia on British Sea Songs]]'' occurred on the same day at a special [[The Proms|Promenade Concert]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Arthur |last=Jacobs |year=2004 |orig-year=1995 |title=Henry J. Wood: ''Maker of the Proms'' |publisher=Methuen |ol=10185704M |isbn=9780413693402 |page=104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFvkAAAAMAAJ&q=Trafalgar+Day+Concert+of+21+October+1905 |access-date=1 July 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324110615/https://books.google.com/books?id=xFvkAAAAMAAJ&q=Trafalgar+Day+Concert+of+21+October+1905 |archive-date=24 March 2023 }}</ref>
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