The King will have its premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2019 on 2 September. Timothée Chalamet plays a young King Henry V, considered one of the greatest warriors of medieval England, in the upcoming Netflix feature The King. According to IndieWire, the film is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s plays Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and …
The Percy family of Alnwick Castle — that splendid, 150-room, heavily crenellated, many-towered magnificence perched on a rocky outcrop above the River Aln in Northumberland — have not, traditionally, lived long or quiet lives. The great Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy, who led endless rebellions against Henry IV of England and was slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury, was immortalised in …
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