william shakespeare spelt s h a k e s p e r e i may have missed out an a
doesn't matter because i spell it differently every time
Stratford upon avon my dad was a bailiff and an alderman which is actually
one step down from being a mayor so it's kind of a big deal
i don't know school's rubbish i mean all you do is learn about dead people
from hundreds of years ago am i right said all the kids with me
yeah yeah yeah yeah nice question that'll be uh one of my later plays um all is true uh it it
brought the house down literally uh cannon went off and the theatre burned down so wicked
uh well when london gets a bit plaguey i sort of head on home to the crib in stratford-upon-avon
um a lot of people think that i go to um italy and denmark because that's where my plays are set but
i just learned about them you know at school and books i'd love to go yeah i'd love to go
uh well i've lived through two monarchs um queen Elizabeth the first and king james first of england
um he did give my troupe a royal patronage so i'll i'll say him he's watching this right yep
the answer is one word ruff ruff in case that wasn't clear ruff
elizabeth that's it simple if you want to get specific queen of england and ireland but
well uh ruling over a golden age of english history uh defeating
the armada thriving protestantism great theatre sending out sailors
all over the world to go exploring so i don't know here take your pic
good heavens no now why would i do something like
that when i've got drake and Raleigh to go exploring for me hmm much safer here
um wow anything really so long as i'm the most fabulous looking person in the room
i actually once had a woman thrown out of court wearing a prettier dress than me
yep that dress is in my wardrobe right now
what a terribly rude question i don't need a husband
i'm married to england and you know what england doesn't leave the toilet seat up so take that
um well executing my cousin mary queen of scots yes i did sign the
death warrant for her but i didn't want them to actually go ahead with it oops
ah you know i love marzipan but anything with sugar will do
why else do you think my teeth are this wonderful shade of black
charles john huffam dickens my middle names are from my father and godfather
i was born in portsmouth then my father moved us to chatham in kent and then to camden in london
well not for me i wasn't allowed to play sports a child i was
too sickly i ended up playing make-believe
i had to leave school as a child to work in a factory sticking labels on bottles
after my parents were sent to prison so let's say five
yes four of my siblings were sent to prison with my parents
david copperfield reminds me of my own childhood
i actually tried to become an actor before i went into writing
but i missed an audition after i caught a cold their loss if you ask me
the coolest thing i've ever done that would have
to be the ice cold shower i had installed in my home in london
the first of its kind in the country it was so powerful they nicknamed it the demon