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From Victorian opera singers to Debbie Harry, a new exhibition celebrates the historic and iconoclastic fashion of women in charge of their own destinies

The notoriously overpriced biopic, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, carried an infamous legacy but is it any good?

Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte and its imitators have been praised for bringing diversity to the very white world of historical drama. But could these Black fantasies actually be dangerous?

Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black queens, and that was really important for me, as well as for my daughter, and just for my community to be able to know…

Kim Cattrall's gravestone drama led to legal battle with her family and revealed a bizarre self-appointed monicker for the legendary star

As Cleopatra turns 60, and its star’s romance with Richard Burton becomes the subject of a new play at the National, we take a trip down the Queen of the Nile’s finest films

Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts on Channel 4 sees the presenter take a railway trip through Egypt to discover its ancient secrets.

PHILADELPHIA — Romeo and Juliet. Antony and Cleopatra.

Netflix’s drama-documentary made headlines last month when the Egyptian government denounced it as a “historical fallacy”, because the show insists that Cleopatra was black, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. No one knows what colour Cleopatra’s skin was, but she is widely believed to have been of Greek-Macedonian descent. 

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Queen Cleopatra star Craig Russell's lime-sized brain tumour began to rob him of his sight - and doctors warned he could die on the operating table