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Before we get stuck into our interview, I want to ask Jared Harris – star of Chernobyl, Mad Men and a host of other small screen smash hits – what he thinks of The Crown, the first part of the sixth and final season of which was released on Netflix earlier this month. Harris, of course, was an early Crown success story, winning rave reviews for his performance as the ailing George VI during the first season in 2016.
As he makes a rare appearance on the British stage, the actor talks alpha males, his hellraising father and ‘humanising’ a dying George VI
Every year, the Catholic Herald draws up a list of prominent Catholics in the UK – and every year, the criteria for entry are slightly d
There’s a small cemetery in the grounds of Downside Abbey. Surrounded by a thick hedge, and overlooked by the stout neo-Gothic bulk of the abbey tower, it contains rows of metal crosses. Since 1794 when the Benedictine community came to Britain from Catholic France, it’s where most of its monks have been buried. They would join as novices in their early 20s and know that, decades later, that is where they would end up.
Phoebe Williams-Ellis is the daughter of Edo's mother's third husband David William-Ellis, a very accomplished sculptor .