Charles | Antonio | Stewardess |
Mrs Brown | Businnessman | Mary Poppins |
Sherlock Holmes | Tourists | Mamma |
Horatio Nelson | Pigeon | Queen Victoria |
Anne Boleyn | Catherine Howard | Henry VIII |
Charles: his real name is Charles, but all his friends call him Charlie. He's from Oxford, he's got blond hair and he's Tony's penfriend. In London he goes on to the top of Nelson's column, and he meets Mary Poppins in Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum, who gives him an "Intelligence Medicine". Then he meets Queen Victoria and he helps her to smile.
Antonio:he's Italian, he's got brown air, and his friends usually call him Tony. He's embarrassed when he speaks in English. He thinks English breakfast is not good, but when he tries it he changes his mind. In London he meets Shelock Holmes, who helps him to find his rucksack. On the plane to London he makes mistakes in English and plays tricks to the Stewardess.
Businessman: He's a modern and also a traditional man. Tony meets him when he is visiting the city.
Stewardess: she's the flight stewardess for London Airlines. She doesn't speak Italian very good, and sometimes she makes mistakes. Tony plays tricks to her and she gets angry with the businessman sitting in front of Tony.
Mrs Brown:she is a landlady of a B&B. She likes dancing very much. She is a Londoner , born in London and always lived there. She hates bureaucracy and she's also very strange.
Mary Poppins: this fictional character is the most famous nanny. She was created by Pamela Lyndon Travers, a British author of children's books. Her most famous books are "Mary Poppins" and "Mary Poppins comes back".Julie Andrews played the role of Mary Poppins for the famous Walt Disney film in 1964, for which she won an Academy Award. She gives Charlie an "Intelligence Medicine".
Sherlock Holmes: this fictional character is the most famous London detective; he was created by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), a British physician who turned to writing.He helps Tony to find his rucksack.
Tourists: an American and Japanese tourist.
Mamma:Tony's mother. She is very worried for his son.
Admiral Nelson:Horatio Nelson's statue stands on the top of a column in the middle of Trafalgar Square. Nelson was one of England's great naval heroes. He defeated the French in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, but he lost his life there. He is buried in St.Paul's Cathedral.
Pigeon: a pigeon in Trafalgar Square that helps Charlie to find Tony, who is in a MacDonald's to eat a BigMac.
Queen Victoria:Victoria became queen in 1837. She was 18 years old. Victoria and her husband Albert had 9 children and they were a happy couple. When her husband died, she avoided London for a long time. Victoria was queen for most of the 19th century. She was not a great queen or a particularly brilliant woman, but she was very lucky in having a succession of politically able Cabinet ministers. During her reign, London expanded its economy. The London underground, the oldest in the world, was opened(1863). The queen became the living symbol of peace and prosperity. She died in 1901. Her statue stands in front of Buckingham Palace. In the play Charlie helps her to smile.
Anne Boleyn: she was the second wife of Henry VIII; she was executed in the Tower of London . In the play she talks with Catherine Howard about her terrible headache.
Catherine Howard:She was the fifth wife of Henry VIII; she was executed in the Tower of London . In the play she talks with Anne Boleyn about her headache.
Henry VIII:he was the second son of Henry VII, and was one of England's strongest and least popular monarchs. He was the first English ruler to be educated under the influence of the Renaissance:he was very clever and spoke other languages. He was a great musician, and he was also very athletic and loved hunting and wrestling. He became fat when he was an old man. Henry is famous for his 6 wives, but also because he changed England forever. When Henry became king, he was only 18 and England was a Catholic country. In 1509, Henry married Catherine of Aragon and they had a daughter. Henry wanted a son to be the next king so, in 1533, he decided to divorce Catherine and marry again. Pope Clement VII, the head of the Catholic Church, refused Henry's divorce, so Henry left the Catholic Church and in 1534, with the Act of Supremacy he became head of the Church of England. He closed Catholic convents and monasteries and took their money and their land. Henry married Anne Boleyn, a lady of the court, who gave him a daughter who became Elizabeth I. Henry soon tired of Anne and put her to death. Henry married 4 more times. Henry's fifth wife Catherine Howard was put to death too. He died in 1547 and was buried in St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.