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Coward had a 19-year friendship with Prince George, Duke of Kent, but biographers differ on whether it was platonic. [134] Payn believed that it was, although Coward reportedly admitted to the historian Michael Thornton that there had been "a little dalliance". [135] Coward said, on the duke's death, "I suddenly find that I loved him more than ...
Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and
Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by: "
As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’
The story is set in 1911 London at the time of George V's coronation. American-born chorus girl Mary Morgan becomes involved with Balkan archduke Charles, the widowed prince regent of Carpathia, after he sees a performance of her West End musical The Coconut Girl. She soon becomes involved with the actions of his teenaged son, King Nicholas, as ...
To Coward, the Haymarket was "the most perfect theatre in the world". [32] In 1956, Stuart Watson, who had taken over management of the theatre from his father Horace, [ 33 ] died and was succeeded by his son Anthony, and then his daughter-in-law Sylva Stuart Watson , who took over in 1963. [ 34 ]
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to “Mad About the Boy – The Noel Coward Story,” an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century’s greatest ...
Graham Payn (25 April 1918 – 4 November 2005) was a South African-born English actor and singer, also known for being the life partner of the playwright Noël Coward. Beginning as a boy soprano, Payn later made a career as a singer and actor in the works of Coward and others. After Coward's death, Payn ran the Coward estate for 22 years.