{"id":2102418,"date":"2025-10-19T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2102418"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:16:15","slug":"expanding-variety-at-the-royal-albert-hall-sumo-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/expanding-variety-at-the-royal-albert-hall-sumo-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding variety at the Royal Albert Hall | Sumo wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It\u2019s good to see the variety of entertainment available at the Royal Albert Hall expanding (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/15\/grand-sumo-wrestling-tournament-london-royal-albert-hall\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London, 15 October<\/a>). I know little about sumo wrestling, but I assume it\u2019s not over till the fat man falls?<br \/><strong>Richard Barnard<\/strong><br \/><em>Wivenhoe, Essex<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Perhaps King Charles can show he is a true monarch of the people by appointing one of his subjects from Yorkshire as a replacement Duke of York (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/oct\/17\/prince-andrew-to-give-up-royal-titles\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after \u2018discussion with king\u2019, 17 October<\/a>). May I nominate David\u00a0Hockney or Alan Bennett?<br \/><strong>Colin Burke<\/strong><br \/><em>Cartmel, Cumbria<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> It\u2019s a minor point regarding Simon Jenkins\u2019 column on the royal family (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/oct\/16\/prince-andrew-abuse-claims-new-low-royal-family\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">16 October<\/a>), but I\u2019d hardly call an eight-bedroom, Grade II-listed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forest_Lodge,_Windsor\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Georgian mansion<\/a> in Windsor Great Park and prospective home of the future king a \u201cmodest house\u201d.<br \/><strong>John De la Cruz<\/strong><br \/><em>London <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Is this a new benchmark for shortest time in big jobs (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/oct\/18\/ange-postecoglou-sacked-by-nottingham-forest-after-40-days-as-head-coach\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ange Postecoglou sacked by Nottingham Forest after 40 days as head coach, 18 October<\/a>)? Has \u201cDoing a Postecoglou\u201d now replaced \u201cDoing a Truss\u201d?<br \/><strong>Phil Sinnott<\/strong><br \/><em>Crosby, Liverpool<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> A whole article about narcissistic personality disorder (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/oct\/15\/you-are-constantly-told-you-are-evil-inside-the-lives-of-diagnosed-narcissists\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">15 October<\/a>) without mentioning Donald Trump?<br \/><strong>Margaret Squires<\/strong> <br \/><em>St Andrews, Fife<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Should the sun have been shining out of his arse (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/oct\/15\/donald-trump-photo-time-magazine\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Trump hates this \u2018super bad\u2019 photo of him in Time magazine. I almost feel sympathy \u2026 almost, 15 October<\/a>)?<br \/><strong>Andy Smith<\/strong> <br \/><em>London<\/em><\/p>\n<footer class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><em><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/19\/mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\"><strong><em>email<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/letters\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><strong><em>letters<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theguardian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s good to see the variety of entertainment available at the Royal Albert Hall expanding (More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London, 15 October). I know little about sumo wrestling, but I assume it\u2019s not over till the fat man falls?Richard BarnardWivenhoe, Essex Perhaps King Charles can show he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2102419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Expanding-variety-at-the-Royal-Albert-Hall-Sumo-wrestling.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102420,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102418\/revisions\/2102420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}