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English dignitaries mark Charles Dickens' birthday

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    Celebrated author born 200 years ago

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Chris Charles -- Aretha dickens' great marking 200 year since the author's birth.

The -- and wife Camilla attending a service at Westminster -- honoring the writer of a tale of two cities and bleak house.

Think as we remember most originate from his books.

All the great -- tasks.

We have we think.

Never met anyone like them.

And then we think again.

After ray Fiennes and the author's great great grandson mark Dickens read extracts from dickens' works at a service in poet's corner.

-- and was buried in making 78 alongside Geoffrey Chaucer -- Rudyard Kipling and other literary greats.

The fact that west celebration the 200 anniversary of the book that tells it is an opportunity to be able to do.

Well it.

Works but particularly with the social before -- was very very important to practice site.

As a child -- work in a factory law's father was in prison for unpaid debts some say this fueled his ambition and inspired some of his most famous characters like Fagan.

And Oliver Twist he came from such humble background.

Had such -- horrible horrific experience in his -- it.

And that's got him deeply Prince Charles and Camilla were among the many -- -- only surviving London home which is now a museum in his honor.

Dickens' a rags to riches story is evident in his writing as it shines a light on the -- citizens of London.

And as exemplified characters from some of his novels including David Copperfield great expectations he died at the age of 58 at the stroke in London Greg Palkot.

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