Anne Boleyn News
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Hilary Mantel has won the Costa Book of the Year award for “Bring Up the Bodies,” the first time an author has received that prize and the Man Booker Prize for the same novel. She accepted the honor, which comes with a check for 30,000 pounds ($47,250), during a champagne reception at London restaurant Quaglino’s.
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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize last night with “Bring Up the Bodies,” the second installment in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, which began with 2009’s winner, “Wolf Hall.”
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Fixer-in-chief Thomas Cromwell is back with a new mission: to dispatch the queen he helped create.
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Kate Middleton went to university, got a job and moved in with her boyfriend. From that modern background, she’ll step back in time tomorrow when she marries Prince William .
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“Anna Bolena,” Donizetti’s melodious setting of Anne Boleyn’s last moments on earth, opened at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday in a new production featuring Anna Netrebko and two handsome Irish wolfhounds who helped us get through one very tedious scene.
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“Let’s just say, I think this is my time,” Anna Netrebko suggested after her performance in “Anna Bolena” at the Metropolitan Opera’s opening gala last night.
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The 11th child of a Cuban truck driver has London’s Coliseum all to himself this weekend.
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It’s the ultimate phallic symbol.
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Pope Benedict XVI criticized Catholic Church officials for not acting quickly enough against priests accused of sexually abusing minors, as he arrived in the U.K. for the first papal visit to the country in 28 years.
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