Why do you think the love story and tragedy of Anne Boleyn still fascinates people around the world?

Henry risked so much to marry Anne - he had to turn the world upside down, rejecting the Pope and engineering the "first divorce in history" - but the love affair turned so brutal in the end.

Anne emerged from the court to become the Queen - her determination and ambition in a world where women were denied so much can't fail to inspire.

Did you always have it in mind to stage Fallen in Love at the Tower of London? Was it easy to arrange with the management at the Tower?

It's the perfect venue. We first performed the play two years ago at our base Gippeswyk Hall in Ipswich. It was a great success and got votes of confidence from some wonderful historians, most notably Alison Weir and Susannah Lipscomb.

Alison mentioned the play to the Chief Executive of the Historic Royal Palaces and things went from there. It's taken a long time to negotiate and arrange. The Tower is quite a scary place in many ways. The people are lovely but the security and procedures are understandably quite strict.

Will there be Beefeaters on guard at the performances?

Well yes, I think so...but don't worry they're very friendly and excited about the play too.

What extra atmosphere do you hope the Tower will add to Fallen In Love?

The setting can't fail to intensify the emotional punch of the play. I think it will be most telling when the audience leave the auditorium and see the execution site.

The ravens are also mentioned in the play and they give the place an eerie feeling...after all, their ancestors will have been there when the real executions took place.



The Tower is supposedly one of the most haunted buildings in London, including sightings of Anne's ghost. Do you think you'll be having an extra ghostly audience member watching the play on opening night?

I do hope so. In her execution speech Anne said: "If any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best."

I've kept that in mind throughout writing and directing the play. I have rigorously stuck to the historical facts and I don't portray Anne as a perfect saintly Queen but as a real woman, flawed but brilliant in so many ways. I hope she would and will approve.

Whilst rehearsing, have you experienced any ghostly goings on?

No not really, although the actors seem to think it's hilarious and pretty freaky that I used to imagine Anne sitting next to me in my car while I was writing the play.

To get her voice right and understand her, I imagined endless conversations with her.

Historians are divided over Boleyn's 'guilty' verdict for treason and incest. Do you think Anne Boleyn was incestuous with her brother, or was she just a victim of politics?

Anne was definitely a victim of politics and the brutality of the day. Her relentless ambition and that of her brother George of course played a big part in their downfall.

As to whether they were guilty of incest....well I guess you should come and see the play and decide for yourself.

"I want to inform the world about the cruelty our workers are subjected to and the working conditions of the cheapest labour in our country.

"In the past, business owners and the government have said that activists and workers are trying to conspire against industrialisation, which is the same old story used to argue against workers' rights.

"But as an activist and photographer, I know that trade union activists and workers want the development of industrialisation - we believe that without improving the condition of workers with proper wages and safety, industrialisation is not possible.

"And it’s not only an issue local to us, it’s also an international issue. Buyers buy products from our country at a very cheap rate and our labour has become the cheapest labour in the world. International buyers are not concerned about the rate of payment for workers, or their safety.

"Through my photography I have been trying to campaign against the low wage of workers and their insecure working conditions for the last five years. I don't want my photography to be used as any propaganda for destroying our working industry, but instead to improve it. I hope readers of The Huffington Post UK will agree with me." - Taslima Akhter

• A powerful no-nonsense female leader, Elizabeth might have straightened her hair in a powerful yet stylish short cropped style



• Known for her love of fashion, she would be more likely to wear a bespoke stylish and unique female suit made with rich colours and material



• Rarely pictured smiling, Queen Elizabeth exudes power in the modern day portrait, and hides her new veneers purchased to disguise her notoriously bad teeth

• Renowned for being vain and lavish, King Henry has been given white veneers and hair plugs to hide his balding head



• Instead of the cotton shirt fastened up to the chin he now sports an unbuttoned shirt ‘Simon Cowell’ style and is very much the ‘modern day lady killer’



• An avid sportsman and known for being conceited he has been slimmed down. Henry’s vanity would have ensured he would have retained the naturally muscly, rugby-player type figure he had in his youth



• Known for having spent a lot of time outdoors riding, hunting, and playing tennis, Henry VIII has also been given a tan



Flick through other historical figures who have been given a modern makeover:

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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/ World Book Night in London, as some of the biggest and best authors read their work in a celebration of the written word.

World Book Night embarked on its third year on 23 April, making headlines by handing out half a million books across the UK with the help of 20,000 volunteers.

Culture presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli hosted the evening at London's Southbank, as acclaimed writers, including Rose Tremain, Sebastian Barry, Mark Haddon and David Nicholls, stepped forward to read extracts.

Lucy Fleming, niece of Bond creator Ian Fleming, read from an essay by her late great uncle, offering advice on How To Write A Thriller.


Rose Tremain and David Nicholls attended the World Book Night 2013 'Casino Royale' cocktail party at the South Bank Centre, London.

Now you can enjoy your own evening of stories with full online video coverage of London's World Book Night 2013, courtesy of HiBROW, a content company dedicated to the Arts for the global digital community. HiBrow were on hand to capture every imaginative syllable and sentence.

We've picked out three of our favourite highlights from the evening below, along with full video coverage of all readings at the bottom of the article:

Actor, screenwriter, and film director Charles Dance (Alien 3, Game of Thrones) gave a reading from the late Josephine Hart's novel Damage, exploring the shadow of influence a father holds over his son:




David Nicholls put on his best James Bond persona to read an extract from Ian Fleming's very first Bond novel, Casino Royal:




Lucy Fleming, niece of Ian Fleming, reads an extract from an essay by her uncle uncle on How To Write A Thriller.




Watch all readings of World Book Night's London event:




For further coverage from World Book Night head to HiBROW.tv to find more exclusive readings and interviews from this years line up, and previous World Book Night highlights.


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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/
Having shaped the art scene with his distinctive prints, photos, performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, Warhol continues to be a cultural icon to this day.



Now history has a chance to turn its eye on the artist with fresh perspective, as exclusive never-seen-before photos of the artist are displayed in New York exhibition Lost then Found, in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan, for 10 days only.

Photographer Steve Wood (right) shot the photos in 1981 at La Belle Époque style Royal Hotel in the French town of Deauville.

Filing the 35mm negatives under 'W', the images lay undisturbed in a cabinet until 2012.

The collaboration between Daily Express photographer Wood and his subject came about through mutual friend New York restaurateur Elaine Kaufmann, owner of ‘Elaine's’ restaurant; a hangout for Manhattan celebrities, artists and writers.

Using natural light, Wood caught the characteristically shy Warhol facing the camera lens with an unflinching gaze, alongside a sunflower and backpack as props.


Two of Steve Wood's 'lost' photos of artist Andy Warhol. Scroll down for more pictures from the Lost then Found exhibition

Intrigued by this artistic discovery, HuffPost UK caught up with Wood to find out more about the story behind Lost then Found - read our interview:



How did your photos become 'lost' for 30 years?

The images were lost because my ex-wife forgot to send them to my normal press organisations, so they remained in the filing cabinet gathering dust until I met food photographer David Munns. He used my loft space to shoot some images and commented that my space reminded him of Andy Warhol's factory.

David then said "I bet you've never met him" and I said "yes, and I'll prove it", I then went into my old filing cabinet and produced the images on 35mm slides - filed under W - next to Dennis Waterman.

Were you keen to do the shoot?

I was attending the Deauville Film Festival and bumped into my old friend Elaine Kaufman from New York, she was with Andy and introduced us, she immediately said that I should photograph Andy but I was working on two other shoots while at the festival.

It took a few days for me to agree and after we had lunch together, I was very honest and said that I wasn't a big fan of his work and preferred more classical art including Van Gough and the Impressionists. I said that I could photograph him with this in mind and he was happy to give me full access during our shoot together.

What was Warhol's mood on the day of the photo shoot?

Andy was very easy to work with on the day and he put himself totally in my hands to do what I thought made him look good.

With everybody I ever work with I take away the direct sunlight which in this case would not have agreed with his skin. After one of the days we spent at the beach under a shady light I could see that his skin tone could not take direct sunlight.

So I suggested using the hotel corridor which I had already checked had very soft lighting. Even though the images have a bright light - I feel the images show him to his full potential.

He was a gentle person and incredibly self-conscious but I think he was always like that with everyone he met. He was conscious of his appearance in particular his hair and his hands.



Flick through more pics from Lost then Found:



Flick through Warhol's art on display below, plus more shots of Warhol caught on film:



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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/ Des portraits inédits du maître du pop art, Andy Warhol, sont présentés en mai dans une galerie de Manhattan à New York. Cette exposition, appelée "Lost then Found" (Perdus puis trouvés), ne durera que 10 jours.

C'est au photographe Steve Wood que l'on doit ces photos prises en 1981 à l'hôtel La Belle Époque à Deauville. Warhol et Wood se sont rencontrés grâce à un ami commun, une restauratrice new-yorkaise Elaine Kaufmann, propriétaire du Elaine's restaurant, un lieu où les stars, les artistes et écrivains se retrouvaient.



Nos confrères du Huffington Post anglais ont eu la chance d'interviewer Steve Wood. Il dévoile les coulisses de cette séance photo qui l'a beaucoup marquée :



Comment ces photos ont elle pu rester oubliées pendant 30 ans?

Elles se sont perdues parce que mon ancienne femme avait oublié de les envoyer à la presse. Elles sont donc restées dans mon bureau à prendre la poussière jusqu'à ce que je rencontre le photographe David Munns. Je lui avais prêté mon loft pour une séance photo. Il m'a dit que cet espace lui rappelait l'univers d'Andy Warhol.

David m'a dit "Je parie que tu ne l'as jamais rencontré" et je lui ai répondu "Si et je vais te le prouver". Je suis allé dans mon vieux bureau et j'ai développé ces photos.

Comment avez-vous eu l'idée de cette séance photo?

J'assistais au festival de Deauville et je suis tombée sur ma vieille amie, Elaine Kaufman de Nex York. Elle était avec Andy et nous a présentés. Elle a tout de suite mentionné le fait que je devrais prendre en photo Andy. Mais je travaillais alors pour deux autres séances photos.

J'ai finalement accepté quelques jours plus tard et nous avons déjeuné ensemble. J'ai été très honnête et j'ai dit que je n'étais pas très fan de son travail et que je préférais l'art plus classique comme Van Gogh et les Impressionnistes. Je lui ai proposé de le photographier avec cette référence en tête.

Comment se sentait Warhol le jour de la séance photo?

Andy était quelqu'un de très accommodant. Il s'est remis complètement entre mes mains et m'a fait confiance pour le faire apparaître sous son meilleur jour. Comme toujours dans mon travail, je voulais travailler avec la lumière du soleil, mais sa peau ne le supportait pas. Nous sommes finalement sortis sur la plage lorsque la lumière diminuait. Mais la lumière n'était pas suffisante.

J'ai donc suggéré que nous nous installions dans le couloir de l'hôtel dans lequel la lumière était aussi très douce. C'était quelqu'un de très gentil. Il avait une conscience particulière de ses cheveux et de ses mains.



Voici quelques photos de l'exposition :



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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/ Des portraits inédits du maître du pop art, Andy Warhol, sont présentés en mai dans une galerie de Manhattan à New York. Cette exposition, appelée "Lost then Found" (Perdus puis trouvés), ne durera que 10 jours.

C'est au photographe Steve Wood que l'on doit ces photos prises en 1981 à l'hôtel La Belle Époque à Deauville. Warhol et Wood se sont rencontrés grâce à un ami commun, une restauratrice new-yorkaise Elaine Kaufmann, propriétaire du Elaine's restaurant, un lieu où les stars, les artistes et écrivains se retrouvaient.



Nos confrères du Huffington Post anglais ont eu la chance d'interviewer Steve Wood. Il dévoile les coulisses de cette séance photo qui l'a beaucoup marquée :



Comment ces photos ont elle pu rester oubliées pendant 30 ans?

Elles se sont perdues parce que mon ancienne femme avait oublié de les envoyer à la presse. Elles sont donc restées dans mon bureau à prendre la poussière jusqu'à ce que je rencontre le photographe David Munns. Je lui avais prêté mon loft pour une séance photo. Il m'a dit que cet espace lui rappelait l'univers d'Andy Warhol.

David m'a dit "Je parie que tu ne l'as jamais rencontré" et je lui ai répondu "Si et je vais te le prouver". Je suis allé dans mon vieux bureau et j'ai développé ces photos.

Comment avez-vous eu l'idée de cette séance photo?

J'assistais au festival de Deauville et je suis tombée sur ma vieille amie, Elaine Kaufman de Nex York. Elle était avec Andy et nous a présentés. Elle a tout de suite mentionné le fait que je devrais prendre en photo Andy. Mais je travaillais alors pour deux autres séances photos.

J'ai finalement accepté quelques jours plus tard et nous avons déjeuné ensemble. J'ai été très honnête et j'ai dit que je n'étais pas très fan de son travail et que je préférais l'art plus classique comme Van Gogh et les Impressionnistes. Je lui ai proposé de le photographier avec cette référence en tête.

Comment se sentait Warhol le jour de la séance photo?

Andy était quelqu'un de très accommodant. Il s'est remis complètement entre mes mains et m'a fait confiance pour le faire apparaître sous son meilleur jour. Comme toujours dans mon travail, je voulais travailler avec la lumière du soleil, mais sa peau ne le supportait pas. Nous sommes finalement sortis sur la plage lorsque la lumière diminuait. Mais la lumière n'était pas suffisante.

J'ai donc suggéré que nous nous installions dans le couloir de l'hôtel dans lequel la lumière était aussi très douce. C'était quelqu'un de très gentil. Il avait une conscience particulière de ses cheveux et de ses mains.



Voici quelques photos de l'exposition :





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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/ World Book Night and Shakespeare's birthday (449-years-old) - 23rd April could not be more literary.

Ready your dictionaries and dust off your favourite childhood books and highbrow classics, as the world reminds itself the value of the written, printed and digital word.




In the spirit of spreading the love of reading, World Book Night will also be handing out nearly half a million books around the country.

20,000 volunteers will give away 20 specially printed World Book Night editions, of one of 20 titles, to people who don’t regularly read, or don’t have access to books. Over 23,000 people applied to be givers in a record-breaking year for the country’s largest annual book giveaway.

The UK is marking the evening with events in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Cambridge, featuring readings from authors such as Philippa Gregory, Jeanette Winterson, Rose Tremain, Mark Haddon and Tracy Chevalier, to name just a few.

London's World Book Night will be undercover with a Bond theme as actress Lucy Fleming will read from her uncle Ian Fleming's How to write a Thriller, followed by author David Nichols (One Day) reading an extract from Casino Royale.

In preparation for this colossal literary event, we want to whet your reading appetite - take a look at our top scandalous books, the publishers who got it embarrassingly wrong and 11 things you never knew about Shakespeare:






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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/ £249.99 from Amazon, the Asus MeMO Pad Smart 10" is a clear £150 saving on the iPad equivalent.

The latest gadget from Asus aims to deliver the best in Android operating power with hardware designed for high-end entertainment, including an NVidia Tegra 3 Quad-Core graphics processor, an HD (1280x800) screen and a 5MP auto-focus camera.



One of Asus' promises for their Memo pad is that it represents 'the best work and play tablet', with emphasis placed on the note-taking capabilities.

In practice, this means a lot of bundled apps, some of which are quite useful. Asus SuperNote Lite records your muses as though writing on paper, however, the handwriting recognition function is not forthcoming, making the app appear to be little more than a way to save an image of your scribblings. I'm sure a stylus would work a treat, but when used with the humble finger, I'm only reminded how scruffy and awkward my handwriting can look.

At 580g, the Memo pad is a perfect weight, but suffers from the same thick and aesthetically displeasing chunky chassis frame as the Asus PadPhone 2.

As an iPad-user, I missed Apple's simplistic physical home button - Asus only provide a house-shaped screen icon to get you to your desktop screen, which disappears in many of their apps, including the camera mode, leaving you lost and trapped in an app.

The software for 5MP rear camera and 1.2MP front camera includes swift continuous picture-taking when holding down the shutter button, great for capturing action when at an event. Other functions include an intuitive zoom action that is controlled by your thumb sweeping in an arc motion - in fact almost the entire camera app can be controlled with thumbs only, except the tap-to-zoom function.

5MP is not a great deal of pixels in a camera, and the lens isn't great either. The quality of the colours on Memo Pad's photos look quite washed out - not true-to-life tones. The image-merging in the panoramic function is a little blurry (granted, this was tested on a moving train) and the Pad aborts the panoramic sweep if it gets too confused.

The usual collection of instagram-effects are available, though, plenty for an amateur snapper to get their photographic teeth into.

Other notable Asus software on the Memo pad includes the Audio Wizard, designed for getting the best out of the stereo speakers by choosing audio options for watching a film, playing a game, or listening to music. An intriguing addition, but isn't there a way for Asus to make these sound tweaks automated, when it senses your tablet activity?


Asus' Audio Wizard

As with Asus' recent PadPhone 2, the Memo Pad flexes its operating system prowess with the 4.1 Android system; simple control over your tablet.

Those in love with the engaging gloss of Apple's iOS may have withdrawal symptoms, for example, even turning a page on an e-book lacks a smooth elegance. Still, the MeMO Pad Smart is generally functional, fast and unfussy. And it's cheap. As long as you know what you're getting, you won't be disappointed.

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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/ Jeffrey Archer's CV reads like a fantastical character from one of his novels.

HuffPost UK caught up with the author at the opening of the London Book Fair, where Archer announced the semi-finalists of the Jeffrey Archer Short Story Challenge, sponsored by e-reading service Kobo.

Whilst talking on self-publishing, writing and literary agents, Archer also shared his memories of the late Margaret Thatcher - her climb to leadership and immortalisation in his upcoming novel.

As Archer arrived for interview, he was keen to see a copy of the Telegraph, featuring a photo of his wife, Mary Archer, with Margaret Thatcher, who was guest of honour at the Archers’ silver wedding celebrations in 1991.

Jeffrey Archer and his wife will be attending Thatcher's funeral this Wednesday.

Read our interview with Jeffrey Archer:



Tell us a memory about Margaret Thatcher.

I was in Japan with Margaret once and we were speaking at the University of Tokyo.

I said to her: "We have a problem here Prime Minister. The rule in Japan is that all the men ask the questions first [in a debate] and then the women are allowed to ask questions. You must say - man, woman, man, woman, man, woman, otherwise you'll never get a woman's question."

Margaret then took questions for an hour, going: woman, man, woman, man. The girls were so pleased, because the Japanese rule wouldn't normally allow that.

A female undergraduate at the university said to Margaret "I want to be Prime Minister of this country," Margaret replied "don't tell anyone."

I remember when Margaret become Leader of the Opposition, she never thought she'd become Leader, she wanted to be Shadow Chancellor.

I was a child, I was the baby of the team to make her Leader. I don't think she really believed it was going to happen.

When do you think we'll see another female Prime Minister?

Not in my lifetime, and not in yours. Ironically, I think the American family have woken up [to women in politics], they're a pretty slow lot.

They'll get Hilary Clinton and realise how good she is and then they'll wake up. She'll make a very good President.

You're attending Thatcher's funeral this Wednesday with your wife. It's reported that T.S. Eliot and Wordsworth poems will be printed on the Order of Service. Did Thatcher's love of literature include reading your novels?

T.S. Eliot and Wordsworth were her favourite poets. Margaret read all my books. She thought she was the Prodigal Daughter [Archer's novel published in 1982 about an ambitious young woman seeking to become the US President]. "It's me, isn't it Jeffrey," she said.

Margaret Thatcher has never featured in my books, just mentioned.

Will Thatcher feature in any of your upcoming novels?

Yes, I'm writing a five-part series called the Clifton Chronicles [chronicling a period between 1920 and 2020], my latest novel Best Kept Secret is the third in the series.

In the series I've featured the Prime Ministers Harold Wilson, Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill. I will get onto Thatcher's era in the fifth book.

In your Clifton Chronicles book series you discuss the quirks and rituals of Westminster, such as the tradition of knocking on the door of the Chamber of the House of Lords on the stroke of Big Ben's chime. From your experience as an MP, what's the funniest quirk you know of?

In the House of Commons there's a red line on the carpet in front of you when you're sitting down. You're not allowed to cross it. This is from tradition; as long as you stayed the behind the red line, swords weren't able to meet between the opposing parties. Those red lines are still there.

Politics and the Arts have overlapped this week, with the debate about whether the BBC should have played Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead. How do you think the BBC should have handled the situation?

There should never be any form of censorship, there should be courtesy and good manners, which we don't see enough of, which we certainly don't see at the BBC.

I think the BBC are trying to please the Left more than the Right - they have a proven record of doing so over the years. If you went to the BBC and asked the top 100 people how they voted, my bet is that 80 would vote Labour.

If you had the opportunity to address the funeral congregation this Wednesday, how would you sum up your experiences of working with Margaret Thatcher?

Total dedication and love of her country.






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Matthew Tucker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-tucker/
Thatcheristic, curated by Art Below at Gallery Different, features ten artists' depictions of ‘The Iron Lady’ and is open to the public for ten days, tying in with the Downing Street ‘No. 10’ theme.



‘In Your Dreams’ by Ben Moore, 2013, featured at Thatcheristic


An angelic Thatcher surrounded by cherubs, the late Leader imagined as Queen Victoria ruling her Empire and a rusty jowled portrait - all artistic depictions of the late Prime Minister seen at Thatcheristic.



‘On Earth as it is in Heaven’ by Ben Moore, 2013, featured at Thatcheristic


Selected works from the exhibition are also due to feature at Westminster tube station from the 22nd April, including a large pixellated close-up of Thatcher’s tearful eye whilst leaving Downing Street for the last time, by Saatchi New Sensations Winner Jonny Briggs.



‘Maggie Regina’ by Peter Kennard, 1990, from the Tate collection featured at Thatcheristic


Art Below Director Ben Moore said: “All the artists in the show have one thing in common, we all grew up as Thatcher’s children

“Some of the artists, like Peter Kennard, whose depiction of Thatcher is in the Tate Collection, already have their art in the public eye, however some artists are creating work especially for the show, like Carne Griffiths and Matt Small."



The divide in opinion about Margaret Thatcher has also been seen in graffiti painting in the 'Graffiti Tunnel' Leake Street, also known as the "Banksy Tunnel" in London, that reads "Burn in Hell Maggie".



The graffiti was later painted over by British Rail as it was deemed to cause offence, which is against their guidelines for the graffiti on Leake Street.



Another artist using their work to make a political point is Nathan Wyburn who created a portrait of Thatcher using coal; a reference to her actions towards the miners in the 1980's.

Wyburn said: "I've created a portrait of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, using crushed coal powder and solid coal.

"Whether you loved or loathed her, her actions towards the mining industries is one of her most famous and controversial legacies, that still splits the opinion of a nation."



See Wyburn's time-lapse video of his portrait:






Flick through other art inspired by Margaret Thatcher:

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