The Sheriff is now under pressure from Prince John for his failure to assassinate King Richard - unless he delivers a dead Robin Hood, he's finished.

Comedian Julian Clary, who plays Robin Hood in the production, announced his entrance, saying, “And now please welcome to the stage King Richard, and he looks a lot like Sir Ian McKellen”.

When is a legend not a legend? That’s a pretty complicated question to answer, but history has examples of people and events where reality has been intertwined with other stories over the years ...