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== Praise for the book == | == Praise for the book == | ||
'No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact' The Times | 'No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact' - The Times | ||
'Absorbing, entertaining ... the funniest in print since Adrian Mole' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph | 'Absorbing, entertaining ... the funniest in print since Adrian Mole' - Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph | ||
'Kept me rolling about until the last page' Daily Mail | 'Kept me rolling about until the last page' - Daily Mail | ||
'Laugh-ot-loud funny' - Sunday Telegraph | |||
== Amazon Link == | == Amazon Link == | ||
Revision as of 18:15, 5 July 2010
"The Queen and I" was written by Sue Townsend and published in 1992.
The follow-up book titled "Queen Camilla" was published in 2006.
Blurb
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 and titles 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, and 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 circumstances, or deep down are they really just like everyone else?
Praise for the book
'No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact' - The Times
'Absorbing, entertaining ... the funniest in print since Adrian Mole' - Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph
'Kept me rolling about until the last page' - Daily Mail
'Laugh-ot-loud funny' - Sunday Telegraph