Will King Charles feel the power of the Gladiators?

With the royals in the doldrums, and a Nineties classic back on TV, Will Gore gets nostalgic

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It was somehow rather apt that the return of the classic TV show, Gladiators, should be announced in the same week as King Charles’s coronation.

Had the Archbishop of Canterbury been indisposed, it would have been easy to imagine original Gladiators referee, John Anderson, stepping in, to bellow: “Charles, ready?!”

To which the answer would presumably have been: “I’ve been ready for decades!”