It is based on a medieval king's need to bind in the land-owning classes to royal service through the awarding of ranks as part-reward and part-encouragement.
Beaton's claim was based on a version of the late king's will that his opponents dismissed as a forgery.
Certainly that's the case with David Ayer's absurd if accidentally entertaining potboiler, "Street Kings," based on a story by Mr. Ellroy, who also shares screenwriting credit with Kurt Wimmer and Jamie Moss.
She was the subject of a BBC documentary, My Name Is Celia Cruz (1988), and she appeared in the films The Mambo Kings (1992; based on a novel by Oscar Hijuelos) and The Perez Family (1995).
Featuring narration, live Middle Eastern music and shadow puppets by Melissa Marino, "The Butterfly Maiden" is based on a tale from "The Book of Kings," in which Zal is rejected by his father, and Simurgh, the legendary bird, takes him in.
Based on a witty, imaginative script by Chris Galletta, The Kings of Summer focuses on a pair of teen pals.
Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo), based on a Spanish theme, portrays the tragic infatuation of a king for a young Jewish woman.
A policy that seeks to change the king's mind is based on a delusion that is far more deranged than anything in Mr. Trump's statement.
Tristan and Isolde, Tristan also called Tristram or Tristrem, Isolde also called Iseult, Isolt, or Yseult, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king).
