Lastnight KING_&_QUEEN

🎭 Last night, The King and Queen hosted a reception at Windsor Castle to celebrate the contribution of Shakespeare to the life and culture of the UK.

📖 The reception marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio – or collection of Shakespeare’s plays – a copy of which remains in the Royal Library at Windsor.

🪶 Well-known faces from @TheRSC performed excerpts from some of the plays which would have been lost to us today had the folio not been published, and guests were able to view the First and Second Folios which are preserved at Windsor. Charles I read the Second Folio while imprisoned at Windsor Castle during the civil wars. Inside it he wrote ‘Dum Spiro Spero’, Latin for ‘while I breathe, I hope’.