Sir Antony Sher obituary
The Times
Prince Charles was in India on the last day of his 2017 Commonwealth tour when a group of children asked him to name his favourite actor. “Sir Antony Sher, who
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Prince Charles was in India on the last day of his 2017 Commonwealth tour when a group of children asked him to name his favourite actor. “Sir Antony Sher, who is a brilliant Shakespearean actor,” he responded unhesitatingly.

While to many people Sher was indeed the John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier of his generation, it would be hard to picture either of those theatrical knights as a drag queen wearing false eyelashes, 4in heels and a lustrous red wig, as Sher did in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy at the Albery Theatre in 1985, or even to imagine the heir to the throne in the audience.

Sher had made his name at Stratford the previous year in the title role of Richard III, stepping out