Shakespeare's Kings John Julius Norwich Penguin £9.99, pp467 Buy it at BOL Where Shakespeare turned history into drama, John Julius Norwich attempts to reverse the alchemy.
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Then, on March 27 , 1941 two days after the Yugoslav government's signature, in Vienna, of its adhesion to the Axis Pact, a group of Yugoslav Army officers, led by General Dušan Simović, executed a coup d'état in Belgrade, overthrowing the regency in favour of the 17-year-old king Peter II and reversing the former government's policy.
A picture caption on Saturday with an article about the evolving tradition of homecoming kings and queens reversed the identities of two women at the University of Washington who were designated winning "royals," chosen without regard to gender as an expression of change.
A year later, the king reversed his decision, dissolved Parliament and arrested top political leaders.
Apart from God himself and Judge Dredd (both so careless of due process) one eminent figure is Lewis Carroll's Queen of Hearts, whose multiple sentences of instant beheading are quietly reversed by her husband, the king, though he becomes less lenient and far more erratic as judge at the trial of the Knave of Hearts.
In 1279 he introduced a new type of penny, with, obverse, bust of the king and, reverse, long cross with three pellets in each angle, a type that was much imitated abroad and persisted on silver until Henry VII.
Responding to the anger, the king recently reversed some changes at great state cost — increasing fuel and food subsidies and civil service pay.
Five days after news of the pardon leaked, the king exceptionally reversed his decision and asked for an investigation to determine who was responsible for selecting Galván Viña for release.
But in April the Kings reversed course.
