Good value for money!!!!! (The Queen and I - Sue Townsend)

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Product:	The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
Date:	11/12/00 (159 review reads)
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Advantages: Hilarious

Disadvantages: None

It is the day after the 1992 general election and the Queen's worst nightmare has come true: a republican government has been elected, and the monarchy has been abolished.
Jack Barker, leader of the Republican Party, arranges for the royal family to move out of Buck Pal to a run-down council estate in the Midlands:
"I'm not telling you where you're all going. All I can say is that you'll be in the same street, but you'll have strangers as next-door neighbours."

"Tony, why they moved poshos in Hell Close?"
"Christ, just our bleedin' luck to have poshos nex' door!"

After an initial interpretation difficulty, the Royal family's next door neighbours realise who they are ("We never voted for them - we always voted Conservative, always") and are very helpful - fitting carpets, sawing Napoleonic sofas down to size, prviding tea, etc..
The Royals slowly adapt to their new lifestyle. Prince Charles is arrested and sent to prison, escapes and goes on the run, Princess Anne falls in love with Spiggy, the short, fat carpet-fitter, andkeeps a horse in her tiny back garden. Britain is sold to Japan, and someone dies - I'm not saying who. It isn't Diana.

Sue Townsend delivers another masterpiece - if you liked Adrian Mole, you'll love this.

"I can think of no other author who could imagine this outrage (the abolition and rehousing of the Royal family) so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact, as Sue Townsend has." - The Times

"Certainly the most absorbing, entertaining, escapist, the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole" - Ruth Rendell, the Daily Telegraph

To sum up - this hilarious book will make you view royalty (both as an institution and as individuals) in a totally new light. Enjoy.

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