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OPINION - These films glorifying female screen stars could not be more demeaning

Dead girls made great films: that’s the line. Blonde, an art (and snuff) movie about Marilyn Monroe, was up for an Academy Award for Best Actress (Ana de Armas) yesterday: fittingly, she lost to Michelle Yeoh. In 2019 Renée Zellweger won an Academy Award for playing Judy Garland in Judy.…

Evening Standard

‘For me, she had the Jewish chops to play Golda’: director of Golda Meir film addresses casting Helen Mirren

Guy Nattiv defends choosing actor to play the former Israeli prime minister in a new biopic, amid debate about 'authentic casting’

The Guardian - UK

Great Scot! French researchers stumble upon Queen Mary's lost letters

An international team of codebreakers say they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots. The documents were found mislabelled in the digital archive of the French national library.

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3 amateur codebreakers set out to decrypt old letters. They uncovered royal history

Cryptologists found and decoded over 50 long-lost letters that Mary, Queen of Scots wrote during her time in captivity. A historian calls them the most important new findings about her in 100 years.

WEKU

Codebreakers uncover secrets of Mary Queen of Scots lost letters

Experts said the codebreakers' work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.

Daily Record

Codebreakers Find, Decipher Lost Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in British history. The long-rumored missing letters, which were found mislabeled in the digital archive of a French library, were…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Secret messages from Mary Queen of Scots’ prison letters finally decoded

Experts said the codebreakers’ work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years

The Independent UK

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Mary, Queen of Scots prison letters finally decoded

Experts say codebreakers’ discovery is most significant about royal for more than a century

The Guardian - UK

Codebreakers crack secrets of Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.

The Independent UK

Tudor Mystery review – who could have painted such medieval strangeness?

A new exhibition brings together portraits of weird children and nobility by an artist with an eye for human uniqueness. It also reveals their true identity …

The Guardian - UK

Dead billionaires whose foundations are thriving today can thank Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

More than 230 of the world’s wealthiest people, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have promised to give at least half of their fortunes to charity within their lifetimes or in their wills by signing the Giving Pledge. Some of the most affluent, including Jeff Bezos – who…

The Conversation

Geneva bible dating from 1615 to go under hammer in East Belfast

Other items on sale from the same collection are two paintings by the renowned Victorian artist Thomas Sidney Cooper

Belfast Live

Bible dating from 1615 to go under the hammer in Belfast

The Geneva Bible is expected to fetch between £5,000 and £10,000 at auction next week.

The Independent UK

Pepper changed the world – but how many people know that?

Colonialism began with the search for spices. I know because it changed my family’s life, says podcaster Anna Sulan Masing

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The week in classical: Tosca; Gloriana review – made in Britain

The sensational Freddie De Tommaso soars alongside Natalya Romaniw in a catch-it-while-you-can Tosca

The Guardian - UK

Gloriana review – superb singing and smart staging illuminate Britten’s coronation opera

English National Opera’s one-off performance of Britten’s uneven opera was very fine in every respect, with Christine Rice an exceptional Elizabeth I

Liverpool Echo

BBC Antiques Roadshow's most valuable items including £1million flower

John Lennon's guitar were among some of the most expensive items on the show

Daily Mirror

Saucy new Netflix show reveals the real-life lust story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

Blood, Sex & Royalty delves into the murky depths of the British royals. It is being billed as a modern take on the lives of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn

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The Independent UK

‘Greatly missed’: Camilla pays tribute to late mother-in-law Elizabeth II in first speech as Queen Consort

Camilla and King Charles III ‘immensely comforted’ by messages of condolence received from around the world

Evening Standard

‘Greatly missed’: Camilla pays moving tribute to late mother-in-law Elizabeth II in first speech as Queen Consort

Camilla compared her ‘dear’ late mother-in-law and her devotion to the Commonwealth to Elizabeth I, who famously said of herself: ‘You never had any that will love you better’

Liverpool Echo

The Chase's Bradley Walsh supports contestant after Jenny Ryan's 'savage' comment

Ellena was one of four new contestants hoping to take home some cash

The Independent UK

'The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction

“The Crown” returns Wednesday after a two-year absence from Netflix

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Season of 'The Crown' Set to Air after Backlash

The latest season of "The Crown" hits the small screen next week, with streaming giant Netflix adding a disclaimer after a furor over untrue storylines. Series Five, which airs on Wednesday just over two months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of her son King Charles…

The Guardian - UK

Mary, Queen of Scoffs: jailed monarch ate only the best, papers reveal

Newly discovered official accounts show that, while a prisoner of Elizabeth I, her cousin lived a life of luxury

Daily Mirror

British Citizenship exam questions Meghan and Harry 'struggled' with - take the quiz

Meghan Markle claimed the British Citizenship test was 'so hard' even Prince Harry couldn't help her, but how tough are the questions - and could you pass the test?

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