...or, indeed a dozen!
The acting dames above, back row, left-right: Dame Joanna Lumley, Dame Floella Benjamin, Dame Twiggy Lawson, Dame Harriet Walter, Dame Penelope Wilton, Dame Maureen Lipman.
Front row, left-right: Dame Virginia McKenna, Dame Sian Phillips, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, Dame Penelope Keith, Dame Patricia Routledge.
Queen Camilla was with the illustrious Dames to celebrate 400 years since the first Shakespeare folio was published.
The Celebration Of Shakespeare event yesterday, hosted by Gyles Brandreth with the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, also featured a host of Shakespearean actors including Sir Simon Russell Beale, Sir David Suchet, Jeremy Irons, Julian Glover, Brian Cox, Freddie Fox, Gary Oldman and Robert Lindsay.
I woud have killed to be a fly on the wall...
Boy what a great picture of some fabulous actresses and women. All except for Mr Ed in the middle of course. I just cannot take her.
ReplyDeleteThere always has to be one that spoils a photoshoot. I'm with you on "Fag-Ash Lil" - she may be married to The King, but she's no Queen! Jx
DeleteCan you IMAGNE the convos?
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to be the other fly on the wall!!
I cannot with Camilla, btw, but who cares?
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The Dames are far more regal than the ostensible "Royal" amongst them - I wonder how many were slagging her off behind her back?! Jx
DeleteSome great British acting (and in some cases modelling and kids TV-hosting) divas there.
ReplyDeleteAll of them worthy, and all of them fabulous. Jx
DeleteAbsolutely, hosting kids TV takes a lot of acting talent. Watched a dvd of Sooty with my kids a few years ago, they really got into it and found it funny. Harry Corbett really interacted with those puppets as if they were alive
DeleteMerveilleux hommage à Shakespeare avec de belle dames du théâtre britannique et de ses traditions sur scène et à l'écran.
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I would appear to have been a wonderful - and undoubtedly once-in-a-lifetime, given the age of some of the Dames - event! Jx
DeleteGood lord! What a line-up! Talent, sans Hollywood hype.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine any gathering with quite so much class in the US... Jx
DeleteI don't know I think you could still put together as impressive a lineup of Hollywood divas, Shirley Maclaine is still alive, isn't she, and Liza. The main difference is a group of American actresses that age would all have blank expressionless faces, and I don't know who their equivalent of Floella Benjamin would be
DeleteWhat a marvellous collection of Dame Commanders of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
ReplyDeleteI am sure the 'Bard' would have been well chuffed, not sure what he would have thought about the dog in the picture though.
"Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?!" Jx
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