LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Charles leads global celebrations on Tuesday marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of English literature’s most revered novelists who wrote “Bleak House” and “A Tale of Two Cities.”
Britain’s heir-to-the-throne visits the Charles Dickens Museum in London where U.S. actress Gillian Anderson, who played Miss Havisham in a BBC adaptation of “Great Expectations,” will read from the novelist’s work.
The prince then goes to Westminster Abbey to lay a wreath at the grave of a writer whose stories and characters have lived on in countless stage and screen adaptations.
There actor Ralph Fiennes, Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin and the author’s great-great grandson Mark Dickens will be readers at a special service in Poets’
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