The Queen and I

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I wanted to use this book, partly as an antidote to all the ardently royalist activities that were organised for the week, and also to encourage critical thinking amongst the children about the concept of monarchy and social fairness. We had some very interesting discussions about societal hierarchies as a result of reading this text! Princess Anne rose and stood next to her father. “Thank God for that! At least something good has come out of this bloody shambles. Are you all right, Pa?” The Queen and I is a 1992 novel and play written by Sue Townsend, a fictional best-selling political satire revolving round the topic of republicanism in the United Kingdom.

I know this book was published years ago, but somehow I just never got around to reading it until now. The Queen and her brood are evicted and have to live amongst the great un-washed on a council estate in housing that falls far below par. As they come to terms with their situation, the Royals meet fantastic characters and deal with the predicament in their own ways (not necessarily how you’d first expect). With The Queen in a pensioners bungalow and the Queen Mother having ‘meals on wheels’, it’s a book that keeps you laughing, crying and reeling in despair from beginning to end.urn:oclc:869827479 Scandate 20091210050227 Scanner scribe1.sfdowntown.archive.org Scanningcenter sfdowntown Worldcat (source edition) This novel starts on April 9, 1992 (and the book was first published in 1992) with the election. Voila, the anti-monarchist Republican party wins and the royal family is given a very short time to relocate to two bedroom semis (aka semi-detached, aka duplex, welfare housing, and to live on a pension along with paupers and it's illegal to call them by royal titles or treat them any differently than anyone else this is completely unbelievable since not only did the then-Princess Diana have her own wealth, but the British royal family all have private holdings, but of course the humour is set up on the myth that they own nothing of their own.) where we see who rises up to the occasion, who doesn't and how various people react. I disagree that the late Queen would have laughed at this (so it claims on the book). The Queen and I is a hilarious satire on modern Britain and an exploration of what it really means to be human, by the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series.

We really needed to see a family from the council estate taking on their royal lifestyles for comparison purposes.Having grown up on council estates, I think that some poor people are lazy, incompetent, spiteful and unhelpful, just like better off people. That being said, poor people can be just as noble, self-sacrificing and friendly as anyone with more money.

urn:lcp:queeni00town:epub:cd3f3837-e46b-48d2-8909-ae8dffe5140e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier queeni00town Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4jm2vs3x Isbn 0749313528 Nichtsdestotrotz sind einige Ideen sehr nett und haben mir leichte, seichte und somit angenehme Unterhaltung beschert, vor allem die politischen Implikationen am Ende des Buches mit dem Ausland sind eine gute Idee. When it was originally published in 1992 I borrowed a copy from my Mother and devoured it cover to cover. I was only 10 or 11 years old at time, but having read it in subsequent years it has only gotten funnier. Prince Edward. Edward is absent for most of the novel, being in New Zealand producing a play. He appears at the end of the book when he is forced into marrying the Japanese Princess Sayako.Eine grandiose Ausgangssituation: Die Republikaner haben die Wahlen gewonnen, die königliche Familie wird von einem auf den anderen Tag abgesetzt, ihrer Titel und Ämter beraubt, deren Vermögen verstaatlicht, und muss nun in vom Staat zur Verfügung gestellten Sozialwohnungen hausen. Dabei werden sie in das übelste Viertel von London - namens Hellbore (from hell and boring) verfrachtet, wo sie in die indigene Sozialschmarotzerbevölkerung integriert werden sollten - so ala Familie Flodder trifft Windsor. This novel was rather bizarre for me, so unlike the most popular review in the list the ending made it better for me. Imagine if the UK became a Republic and the Royal Family were sent to live on a housing estate and told to live like ordinary Britons. How would they cope? How would they adapt? This very scenario is explored in this rather funny little story by Sue Townsend. This was the first book that I have read by this author and it came highly recommended by a friend. On the whole I found it a really enjoyable read.