The Queen and I (Acting Edition S.)

by Sue Townsend

A seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin.

THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED

When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets andtitles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands.
Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?

• ISBN10: 0141010878
• ISBN13: 9780141010878
• Publish Date: 28 November 2002 (first published 14 September 1992)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 May 2012
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[brokentune]

Not sure where to start with this one. The blurb on the back-cover looked quite an interesting premise: A socialist government wins the election and the Royal family are evicted to council housing, and told to get on without any staff or commodities.

Apart from Harris, the corgie, all the family members are portrayed the same way as you would expect in the papers or a pretty lame impressions show, which makes the plot quite tepid and disappointing when comparing it to other caricatures such as Gin O'Clock.

And, oh yes, the ending - just a tad predictable...