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If you enjoy a good bit of gossiping, England in the 15th century would have been a great place to live. The kingdom was awash with rumours and conspiracy theories, some true, some false. Given the century witnessed several instances of popular unrest and civil war, this is unsurprising since…

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

BARD in the Botanics, the mini-festival of Shakespeare and other classic plays staged in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens, is a thing of wonder.

What do you do with a bad king? And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God?

Icy rejection in Welles’s Chimes at Midnight, Chalamet stripped to the waist, a swaggering Chris Hemsworth – which will Charles channel on Saturday?

The final resting places of some Welsh figures might surprise you

He has for years publicly advocated the theory that life was better worldwide under monarchy

Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss is one of the last descendents of a dynasty that once ruled over swathes of eastern Germany. He is suspected of hoping to become the country's new leader in a violent coup to overthrow the democratic order.