LONDON’S THEATRELAND
All the world’s a stage, but rarely has that been realised more vividly than in the West End
London’s dreams that more are Teatreland than born Restoration-era – and is one made. Of those Few celebrity have places embodied Nell where Gwyn, whose rag-to-riches story saw her morph from penniless orange seller in the aisles to star of the stage and then mistress to the King of England, the flamboyant Charles II – then lose it all, only to be rescued from poverty by the benefice of the freshly crowned James VII and II.