"Downton Abbey" portrays a fairy-tale way of life in which butlers and footmen appear far better dressed than today's billionaires many of whom, after making their fortune, seem to want to be sartorially indistinguishable from the most sloppily dressed adolescent rebel.

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Visitors can join the lantern parade as it snakes its way through the site, lit by thousands of fairy lights, accompanied by singers and musicians from Eden.

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Mr Robison uses this opening as a way to lighten the play: if it is all a fairy tale, then nothing really matters.

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He got out of the way and hopes the charity, which was built on his debunked fairy tale legacy, can carry on without him.

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What is a shame for the London team is that any adulation and respect which stemmed from their fairy tale European Champions League triumph last season has disappeared because of the defensive way they have reacted to criticism since then.

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Fairy tales and urban folklore were created for entertainment, but also as a terrifying way to teach life lessons to young children, essentially scaring them into submission.

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But it seems a tough way to recapture childhood thrills and besides, many modern stagings sternly eschew the fairy-tale elements.

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Remember the way the original film was a lot like watching actors walking inside paintings and drawings on a fairy tale page?

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On the way out to the archipelago from Stockholm, the road winds through the radiant green landscape of a fairy-tale: forests, timber houses, rye fields, fat cows.

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