Dance: I play toffs due to ‘posh’ looks
Duchess’s vow to boy fundraiser Pluto’s ‘hidden ocean older than Earth seas could hold life’
Charles Dance
CHARLES Dance has said he is only cast as posh people because of his face.
The 73-year-old British actor also revealed he did not attend drama school but was taught by two “wonderful” retired actors.
Asked why he thinks he plays aristocrats, the star of Game of Thrones and The Crown said: “It’s just the way my face is put together. But there’s nothing posh about me.”
He said after he left art school to pursue acting in the 1960s, he “knew of these two rather wonderful old men down in Devon and rang them and asked if they would teach me”.
He then spent a couple of years with Martin Burchardt and Leonard Bennett while he “worked as a builder’s labourer and a plumber’s mate” as well.
Stuie Delf & Fraser
NASA pic of Pluto
PLUTO has been home to a vast ocean – for 4.5 billion years, according to scientists.
It lies beneath the frozen crust and could be harbouring life.
In comparison, Earth’s seas are less than four billion years old. An
THE Duchess of Cambridge has pledged to plant a sunflower in memory of a boy whose brother raised thousands of pounds for the hospice that cared for him.
Stuie Delf ran 5km every day in May, raising €20,500, after his little brother Fraser died, aged nine, in January.
Kate and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, spoke to 13-year-old Stuie in an event to mark Children’s Hospice Week. Stuie told them: “Fraser wasn’t just my brother, he was my best friend.”
He and parents,
Stuart and Carla
Delf, spent seven weeks living in the
East Anglia Children’s Hospices unit in Milton,
Cambs, with Fraser before he died as a result of Coats plus syndrome, a rare condition affecting multiple organs.
Mr Delf, 42, said after the video call with the royals: “Kate said that she was going to plant a sunflower in memory of Fraser.
“It’s going to be at one of the EACH hospices.”
The sunflower is now an emblem of hospice care, the seeds representing patients and the petals the love, care, and compassion given. As the pandemic hit fundraising for the Milton hospice, analysis of images from NASA’S New Horizons mission shows the dwarf planet was hot when formed.
This would have created liquid water that has persisted to this day.
It has implications for the “potential habitability” of other icy
Stuie set out to help and show his appreciation to staff for their care, aiming to raise €550. Cheered on by his neighbours, he managed to raise an incredible €20,500.
In the call with Stuie, Kate, 38, said: “I hear you’ve been doing lots of fundraising, which has been amazing.”
When Stuie said he had been inspired by 100-year-old NHS fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore, Camilla, 72, said: “Captain Tom has done a lot for this country. He’s inspired so many people. You must be very fit, Stuie.”
Camilla is patron of Children’s Hospice South West and Helen & Douglas House, while Kate is a patron of East Anglia Children’s Hospices. In her first joint engagement with
Kate, Camilla said: “We’d Sunflower
like to thank everybody that works for hospices across the UK for the incredible job you do.”
Mrs Delf told Kate and Camilla how kind hospice staff helped her and her husband arrange for a vicar to renew their wedding vows in front of Fraser, who had never understood why he was not in their wedding photos.
Eddie Farwell, of Children’s Hospice South West, and Clare Periton, of Helen & Douglas House spoke of the challenges faced due to the pandemic.
Mr Farwell said: “We’re still open for emergency and end-of-life care.” worlds which may also contain hidden oceans or alien life.
It was thought Pluto began as a solid “snowball” before starting to melt due to radioactive decay.
But planetary scientist Carver Bierson, of California University in
Santa Cruz, said: “Instead, Pluto has had an ocean that’s been slowly freezing. We’re pretty sure water is one of the ingredients for life.
“Having water around longer will allow it to react with the rocky core, providing more chemicals.”