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by Sue Townsend (Author) "The Queen was in bed watching television with Harris ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (28 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141010878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141010878
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 58,635 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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?


About the Author

Sue Townsend became Britain's bestselling author of the 1980s with her books THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4 and THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE. She is the author of seven other novels, including THE QUEEN AND I and GHOST CHILDREN, andmost recently her collected journalism, THE PUBLIC CONFESSIONS OF A MIDDLE AGED WOMAN (AGED 55 3/4), was published in 2001. She is also well known as a playwright, and lives in Leicester.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very, very funny, 18 Feb 2004
This is clever humour at its best. The book details the escapades of the Royal Family when they are moved into council estates following a republican victory in the general election. Sue Townsend's humourous style, as seen in Adrian Mole, is retained and this book achieves the almost unachievable in actually being more funny than Mole. The novel does give an insight into the problems of the British welfare system, but this does not prevent it from being hilarious. Everyone really MUST read this book.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, 31 May 2004
The queen and her family are taken from Buckingham palace and placed in a housing estate by the new republican party. I haven't got a bad word to say about this book, yes the characters date the book slightly but due to fictional way they are described you can easily get past this.
The story is wonderfully written and the characters are enjoyable and realistic. The royal families individual reactions to their new situation are realistic and charming, their descriptions play on the publics perceptions of the royal family perfectly.
But the real heroes are the welcoming locals who are proud of where they come from and what they have worked for.
Each chapter is so readable pages pass with out your noticing until the end arrives leaving you wanting more! Wonderful!!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh ? I almost peed my pants, 3 Oct 2000
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This book has to be the most funniest that I have come across in a long time. Not my normal type of bedtime read but the book was unputdownable ! The authors view of how the royal family would behave once booted out of the palace was so believable that god help them should that day ever arrive.
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3.0 out of 5 stars OK
This is the first Sue Townsend I have read. I read the whole thing one very rainy day whilst on holiday. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Night Worker

2.0 out of 5 stars Dude...Where's My *Ending*?
Many of the good things said about this book by other reviewers are true - it is funny (although the jokes are often repetitive), well-observed, and compassionate, and Townsend... Read more
Published 9 months ago by William H. Morgan

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite my cup of... "royal-ty"
I have read almost every book by Sue Townsend, starting from "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" and have always appreciated her ability to convey strong emotions combined with a... Read more
Published 11 months ago by I LOVE BOOKS

1.0 out of 5 stars Not funny and painful
If I remember well it starts off as somebody's nightmare, where the British Royal family for some reason lose their royal status and are forced to live in a council estate... Read more
Published 12 months ago by French reader

4.0 out of 5 stars Dated - but very funny!
I know this book was published years ago, but somehow I just never got around to reading it until now. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Lincs Reader

1.0 out of 5 stars How very funny! NOT!
All those rave reviews here must have been written by the members of Sue Townsend's family and people from her publisher's office. Read more
Published 18 months ago by E. S. Borszczow

4.0 out of 5 stars surprisingly compassionate
A funny and touchingly human portrait of the Royal Family in exile on a Midlands council estate. It says a lot about Britain in the 1990s without being heavy-handed about it. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Curmudgeon

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Wow. That is an amazing book. So Funny!!!!!!!!!! One of my favourite books I have ever read. I don't normally read funny books but i got this for Christmas and read it and I am so... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Drama Queen

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best British comedy books of all times
I re-read "The Queen and I" on the occassion of Sue Townsend's follow-up work "Queen Camilla", which appeared last year. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2007 by Michael Thaidigsmann

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and original
One of those rare original and brilliant ideas, "The Queen and I" tells the tale of life for the former Royal family on a rundown council estate in newly Republican Britain. Read more
Published on 4 Nov 2006 by BookWorm

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