Posted on 04/23/2016 10:36:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some 10,000 people turned out in Stratford, central England, to see a parade revved up by a New Orleans jazz band.
Prince Charles joined top British actors live on stage in a surprise crack at playing Hamlet, as thousands of William Shakespeare fans packed The Bards hometown for the 400th anniversary of his death on Saturday.
The heir to the throne joined the likes of Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen and David Tennant at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for the culmination of a day of parades, dancing and fireworks.et was set.
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As Shakespeare said, heavy is the head that doesn't wear the crown.
Nick, you’re a character, Lol!
I actually like Shakespeare and spent a lot of time in Stratford years ago. Presumably, you heard Charles’s very recent tribute to his mother, quoting Shakespeare (not Hamlet) but Henry VIII :)
“She shall be, to the happiness of England, an aged princess; many days shall see her, and yet no day without a deed to crown it.” - video in link: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36099669
Type casting.
“To be a putz or be putz, that’s not in question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer marriage to a horse face, or take offense against a sea of logic, and by opposing prove the jug-eared village idiot I be.”
Or something like that...
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Did you just make that up, Twister?! You’re a poet and you don’t know it!!!
He threw out her......
for her......
Please post a BARF ALERT next time your link contains a photo of OBAMA (WTH was HE doing there?).
Every inch not a king. Whoops, wrong play, correct sentiment. Thanks nickcarraway.
At his age, shouldn’t he play Hamlet’s father?
But not Yorick (yet).
Diana was a looker but she was Runaround Sue & more than a decade younger.
Camilla is more his age & they’re still married. On that count alone I wish them well.
Charles wasn’t exactly a font of fidelity either. But aristocrats marry to breed and take lovers for fun. There are a lot of similarities between Charles and Edward VII.
True...both Charles & Bertie had very long lived mothers who clung to the throne & relegated their sons to merely ceremonial roles while the heirs-apparent waited decades for the clock to run out.
A bored royal soon becomes a straying royal.
Uh, no, I paraphrased from some guy named Bill.
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Are you sure he didn’t play the part of Hamhead, a much lesser known character in the play?
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