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Fit for a king - Thornbury Castle arises from ambitious multi-million-pound refurbishment

Tudor manor house hotel oozes charm, bloody history and atmosphere

Evening Standard

The best Easter egg hunts in the UK for 2025

Here are the family-friendly trails for some cracking fun this Easter

The Independent UK

This portrait may be the only one of England's 9-day queen painted during her lifetime

Research by the charity English Heritage suggests it may have found a portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen Lady Jane Grey

The Independent UK

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The Golden Throne by Christopher de Bellaigue review – Suleyman returns

A new instalment of the extraordinary and brutal story of the greatest Ottoman sultan reads like a thrilling novel

The Guardian - UK

What is the International Space Station made of? Try our kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK

A Man for All Seasons review – Martin Shaw excels in Robert Bolt’s timeless Tudor morality play

Shaw conveys both the public and private Thomas More in a period-perfect if patchy production of Bolt’s 1960 play of power and corruption

The Guardian - UK

Mark Rylance took significant pay cut to get final Wolf Hall made – director

The BBC drama, based on Dame Hilary Mantel’s final novel in her epic Tudor trilogy, returned last year with Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light.

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The Guardian view on The Traitors: television for dark times

Editorial: The hit show has been compared to cosy crime drama. But it also has parallels with Hilary Mantel’s historical masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

A Man for All Seasons review – creaky but moving portrait of quiet heroism

While this 1960 play has been overtaken by faster-moving tales of Tudor chicanery, Martin Shaw is compelling as Thomas More

The Guardian - UK

Industry to Baby Reindeer: the very best TV shows of 2024 ranked... but what came out on top?

We rank the best shows of the year

Evening Standard

The real medieval 12 Days of Christmas

After a long fast, Medieval Christendom typically celebrated the holiday with many days of raucous festivities

Salon

The joy of trivia: ‘We wrote our book together to intrigue each other’

After midlife burnout came a rediscovered curiosity for two friends and writers

The Guardian - UK

20 amazing non-Christmassy TV shows to watch over the festive season

Looking for some inspiration during the holidays (with no tinsel in sight)? We’ve got you sorted

Evening Standard

Breaking the mould: jelly goes from children’s favourite to star food

Top chefs and celebrities are embracing the humble jelly, with supermarkets reporting sharp rise in sales

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The Mirror and the Light: the series takes Hilary Mantel’s manifesto for historical fiction to heart

“Talk to me before you believe anything!”, Thomas Cromwell (played by Mark Rylance) tells his monarch and master Henry VIII (played by Damien Lewis) in a pivotal scene in the penultimate episode of the BBC adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, the 900-page third act in Hilary Mantel’s acclaimed…

The Independent UK

How Wolf Hall lifted the King’s spirits during cancer treatment – and the racy series Camilla can’t stop watching

Tudor drama follows stories in the court of Charles’ predecessor King Henry VIII

Woman & Home

Surprising facts about royal residences - from unexpected décor and secret rooms to interesting guests

With centuries of history and tradition governing their very existences, it's no surprise that the royal residences are almost as fascinating as the family themselves

The Independent UK

Wolf Hall: BBC viewers praise ‘superb’ season finale of the ‘masterpiece’ historical drama

‘Mark Rylance was made for the role of Cromwell,’ one viewer said

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Jude Law: ‘The persona built on stuff written about me is not me, it’s this other guy’

The actor on 90s nostalgia, how exhaustion helped with his latest role, and his guilt at revealing the truth about Christmas classic The Holiday

Tom’s Guide

How to watch 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light' season and series finale online from anywhere

The final episode of the final season of the BBC's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" novels is here. Here's how to watch the season and series finale from anywhere in the world.

The Independent UK

Nest Farmhouse, King’s Lynn: Brilliant, but just shy of exceptional

TOP TABLES: The North Norfolk outpost from the team behind St Barts and Nest delivers inventive farm-to-plate dining and cosy charm, but a few tweaks could elevate it to greatness, says Lilly Subbotin

TechRadar

A peek inside the strange minds of UK-based Alexa users

The Guardian - UK

‘What does AI mean?’: Amazon reveals UK’s most asked Alexa questions of 2024

From football to food to Taylor Swift, many of the most common subjects were what you expect – but others less so

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Jude Law jokes his wife forgot he was attractive

Jude Law has admitted his wife wasn't a fan of the beard and moustache he had to grow for recent roles.

The Guardian - UK

It’s too late to halt the climate crisis

Letters: Nature is going to solve the problem by eliminating the modern human

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