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Prince Charles leads Dickens 200th celebrations

LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Charles Tuesday the global celebration of 200 anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, English literature, stories of life on Titan in the face of the injustices of Victorian life.


Britain's heir-to-the throne, Charles Dickens Museum in London where U.S. actress Gillian Anderson, who was Miss Havisham in a BBC adaptation of "Great Expectations", a visit to read the work of novelists.

Westminster Abbey to the Prince, from whose "Nicholas Nickleby" story "Oliver Twist" and the character of Ebenezer Scrooge Samuel Pickwick numerous stage and screen adaptations of life to establish a writer's grave koro.

Ralph Fiennes, Dickens biographer, Claire Tomalin and Mark Dickens, grandson of the author's great-great has appeared in Poets' Corner in the hope that this special, where Dickens was buried in 1870, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, and along with other literary greats.