The Shakespeare Connection: How Dame Judi Dench is Linked to Hamlet! | FULL EPISODE | #WDYTYA UK
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@Dancingme007 · 6 months ago
I love her - she wears her emotions on her sleeve. Incredibly heart felt and exquisitely expressive as an actor ❤
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@dawnlovescrochet6509 · 6 months ago
Thanks to every archivist! What a treasure of history and information!
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@entropicentity · 6 months ago
Tycho looks remarkably like Sam! Imagine a family resemblance carrying 10 generations!
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@jennithebombdiggity79 · 6 months ago
I was waiting for someone to tell her that theres a huge crater on the moon named Tycho after Tycho Braun....but they never did. I hope someone told her eventually. But to be so close to Shakespeare through her ancestry...amazing. We are all truly connected. As large as the world seems, it really is that small.
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@SalisburyKarateClub · 6 months ago
I went to that castle many years ago, great to see her connection to it. Is it just me or did her grandson look like Ed Sheeran?
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@Ola20032003 · 6 months ago
One of the most interesting and enchanting stories. Quite a piece of history!
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@niamhneevekinsella7951 · 6 months ago
Ah, I love Judy, and her love for Shakespeare. This must have been such a mind blowing discovery. What an ancestry. I'm delighted for her and her family.
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@Maryantelope · 6 months ago
Dame Judi in her little gold ballet slippers is SO adorable
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@hellsbells-e5w · 5 months ago
Sooo, if Judy's dad hadn't injured his knee, he would have died in the war, and Judy would not have been born and this wonderful connection to William Shakespeare would not have been made. Truly, a hand reaching out across the ages.❤
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@ElizabethRose-cc9rz · 5 months ago
Judy, your Father was a true hero. The look on your face is one of sheer surprise and terror. You have every right to feel proud of him.
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@lindapow9351 · 6 months ago
It’s so much better hearing where great actors came from … Lovely to hear a down to earth Judy Dench
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@VonDutch68 · 6 months ago
The MC military cross until 1993 was the second highest gallantry award.
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