Margolyes did theatrical Dickens-associated readings alongside other actors including Karl Collins.
Actress Miriam Margolyes has claimed that if author Charles Dickens was alive today then he would have supported the Palestinian people.
The audience included the Queen, BBC Sport presenter Clare Balding and her wife Alice Arnold as well as members of the public.Margolyes was asked by broadcaster and trustee of the Queen’s Reading Room charity, Gyles Brandreth, about when she first discovered the writer of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.
“It was all about criminals. And I enjoyed the danger of it, the humour of it. But I was mystified because of the Jews and I’m Jewish.
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