the various rival monarchs, de Fortis promoted a new king, Cedric Boston (born on Montserrat in 1960). Boston claimed the Redondan throne in 1984, winning the allegiance of a number of Gawsworth's peers. On the question of the Kingdom of Redonda, Wynne-Tyson has written: A stellar legion of Redondan peers, largely writers, date back to the Shiel and Gawsworth eras. They include Arthur Machen, Oliver Stonor, Edgar Jepson, Thomas Burke, Victor Gollancz, Carl Van Vechten, Arthur Ransome, Lawrence Durrell, Gerald Durrell, G. S. Fraser, Michael Harrison, John Heath-Stubbs, Dylan Thomas, Henry Miller, Julian MacLaren-Ross, Philip Lindsay, Rebecca West, John Waller, August Derleth, Stephen Graham, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. B. Priestley, Eden Phillpotts, Stephen Potter, Martin Secker, Frank Swinnerton, John Wain,and Julia Morton-Marr (IHTEC), Esther Terry Wright and Julian Symons and the British beat poet, Royston Ellis, who was ennobled twice. Actors ennobled during Gawsworth's reign were Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Barry Humphries, Diana Dors, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Vincent Price, Joan Greenwood, and Robert Beatty. Also honoured were broadcasters Libby Purves, Roy Plomley and Alan Coren. King Xavier's peers include Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Ford Coppola, A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Umberto Eco, George Steiner, Ray Bradbury, Frank Gehry, J. M. Coetzee, Éric Rohmer, and Philip Pullman. The artist Stephen Chambers was ennobled in 2017. Wynne-Tyson, Javier Marías, Bob Williamson, William Gates and Cedric Boston were all interviewed in the BBC Radio 4 documentary Redonda: The Island with Too Many Kings, broadcast in May 2007. Death of Javier Marias On September 11th, 2022, Javier Marías died in Madrid, leaving the throne up for grabs. List of kings Undisputed Matthew Dowdy Shiell, 1865–1880 Matthew Phipps Shiell, 1880–1947 (styled as King Felipe I) John Gawsworth, 1947–1967 or 1970 (styled as King Juan I) Disputed Arthur John Roberts, 1967–1989 (styled as King Juan II) Jon Wynne-Tyson, 1970–1997 (styled as King Juan II) William Leonard Gates, 1989–2019 (styled as King Leo) Javier Marías, 1997–2022 (styled as King Xavier) Others Bob Williamson, 2000–2009 (styled as King Bob the Bald) Michael Howorth 2009– (styled as King Michael the Grey) In popular culture In 2007, the Wellington Arms pub in Southampton, England, attempted to declare itself an embassy of Redonda, in order to gain diplomatic immunity from a nationwide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, including pubs. This ultimately failed when the Foreign and Commonwealth Office pointed out that His Majesty's Government recognises Redonda only as a dependent