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From ethereal elven queen to abusive orchestra conductor, and everything in between, our Cate has impressed in many, many roles — and she has the Oscar wins to prove it.

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.…

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…

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

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

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

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 …

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…

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