In the summer of 1939, King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) visit F.

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As the play opens, King (the admirable, compelling Samuel L. Jackson) calls room service and goes to the bathroom.

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Samuel Smalls, who is a cripple and is familiar to King Street, with his goat and cart, was held for the June term of court of sessions on an aggravated assault charge.

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And diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn wrote of the spectacle they witnessed when King Charles II took part in a pageant in 1660, a year after the restoration of the monarchy.

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