![I wondered about this costume choice (of Christmas cracker hat) for Kevin Spacey’s Richard (and later Haydn Gwynne’s Queen Elizabeth) until I re-read Henry VI, part 3 (the histories have never been my strong suit) where Queen Margaret says the following to the Duke of York, Richard III’s father, just before he is executed:
Yorke cannot speake, vnlesse he weare a Crowne.
A Crowne for Yorke; and Lords, bow lowe to him:
Hold you his hands, whilest I doe set it on.-
[Putting a paper Crown on his head]
I marry Sir, now lookes he like a King:
I, this is he that tooke King Henries Chaire,
And this is he was his adopted Heire.
(Henry VI, part 3, Act 1, Scene 4)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz0pb0XaeA1qah8vso1_500.jpg)
I wondered about this costume choice (of Christmas cracker hat) for Kevin Spacey’s Richard (and later Haydn Gwynne’s Queen Elizabeth) until I re-read Henry VI, part 3 (the histories have never been my strong suit) where Queen Margaret says the following to the Duke of York, Richard III’s father, just before he is executed:
Yorke cannot speake, vnlesse he weare a Crowne.
A Crowne for Yorke; and Lords, bow lowe to him:
Hold you his hands, whilest I doe set it on.-
[Putting a paper Crown on his head]
I marry Sir, now lookes he like a King:
I, this is he that tooke King Henries Chaire,
And this is he was his adopted Heire.
(Henry VI, part 3, Act 1, Scene 4)
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KEVIN SPACEY IN RICHARD III AT BAM TODAY.
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