Another “Masterpiece” mini-series that season was “Elizabeth R,” starring a fierce and eventually half-bald Glenda Jackson, which could be said to have set into motion an entire Tudor subindustry: films and series about Boleyn’s daughter, among them the two Cate Blanchett “Elizabeth” movies and Helen Mirren ’s 2005 portrayal of the queen who was the namesake of the one she earned an Academy Award for playing a couple of years later, in “The Queen.”

Denying he [David Cameron] was a closet Brexiteer, as his former aide Steve Hilton has claimed, the PM told reporters: "I withdraw absolutely nothing I've previously said. Britain is an amazing country. We can find our way whatever the British people choose.

His excuse about his car breaking down again rings false to me.

After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.