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Dickens bicentenary celebrated

07.02.12 | Bookseller staff

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will help mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens today by laying a wreath at the novelist's grave in Westminster Abbey. 

Prince Charles will lay the wreath during a ceremony which will bring together the largest ever gathering of Dickens descendants, as well as representatives from the worlds of literature, film, theatre and the media, the Daily Telegraph reports. 

Biographer Claire Tomalin (pictured) and actor Ralph Fiennes, who stars as Magwitch in a new film adaptation of Great Expectations, will read Dickens extracts at the ceremony.

Among a host of other events being staged to mark the day, the British Council will run a 24-hour Global Dickens Read-a-thon over Twitter, with 24 countries - including China, Albania, Pakistan and Russia - reading an extract of his work.

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By simon porter

Just a little correction - Camilla is not the Princess of Wales, she is the Duchess of Cornwall.

Tue, 07/02/2012 - 11:30
By Peveril

Who are the Prince and Princess of wales? Do you mean the Prince of Wales and the Dichess of Cornwall? The Princess of Wales died in 1997.

Tue, 07/02/2012 - 11:38
By reader

Not to be pedantic, but she is in fact the Princess of Wales, even if she doesn't go by that title. Marriage to the Prince of Wales automatically makes her Princess of Wales (in the same way that, when Charles becomes King, she will automatically become Queen, again whether or not she chooses to use that title.)

Tue, 07/02/2012 - 12:28
By Benedicte Page

Corrected, thank you!

Tue, 07/02/2012 - 15:54

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