The gold crowns, rings and other accessories have been ... the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, and two of the wives of Sigismund II Augustus, who was also a Grand Duke of Lithuania ...

King John's faithful fool and personal assistant, Max Tobin (strangely never before mentioned in any historical text), looks back at the evidence against the real-life medieval monarch.

The fusion of LOTR with medieval art pays tribute to ... played by Ian McKellen, crowns Aragorn as King of Gondor. Despite being as uniting for Tolkien's fanbase as a modern political candidate ...