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Bonham Carter:"The other actors [John Wood as the Duke of Northumberland, Michael Hordern as Dr. Feckenham, Queen Mary's confessor, Sara Kestelman as Frances Grey, the Duchess of Suffolk etc.] were not intimidating at all; they all knew Trevor. [We would] watch them to pick up clues and technique...
...February 12th, 1554, 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey and her husband, 19-year-old Lord Guilford Dudley were executed for treason at the Tower of London. Innocent pawns in a plot engineered by the influential Duke of Northumberland to alter the plan of royal succession as drawn up by the late King Henry VIII, the two young nobles were imprisoned by the allegedly rightful heir Queen Mary after a nine-day period during which Jane ruled England as Queen...
Suspense comes with the underhanded, dastardly intrigues of Lord Guilford's father, the historically in famous Duke of Northumberland. The controlling force behind the during the latter portion of Edward VI's reign, it was Northumberland's lust for power that prompted him to arrange the marriage between his rather impish Beau-Brummel-of-a-son and the potential inheritress Jane, then fourth in line for the throne...
...N.U.M. members were working, more than 63,000 are now back at their jobs, according to the government's National Coal Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer of the N.U.M. in Northumberland, as he went back to work on Nov. 19, one of 2,282 to do so that day. "These strike leaders are hell-bent on destruction...
...forebears were Northumberland farmers, and at first young Ralph dreamed of becoming nothing more eccentric than a pharmacist. Then he saw a production of Hamlet in which the leading actor drew his sword and scraped it against the floor of the stage. This weird and wonderful noise mesmerized the teenager, and he resolved to take to the stage. With no schooling in the dramatic arts, Ralph had literally to buy his way into an amateur repertory company. His audition speech drew this appraisal from the company's manager: "It's frightful, Richardson. You could never, never be any good...