The Queen and I
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
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"I can only agree with the other comments here: It is situated 20+ years ago without any frame of reference to place the watcher in the time period. Many of the characters are now dead, and unknown to many watchers (Princess Margaret, Queen Mother) etc. Jokes about Princess Di dating Dodi Fayed are obviously not funny in hindsight. It portrays everyone in a nasty manner, 'the Royals' and 'the Poor' are equally shown to be lazy/backbiting/worthless people. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. Watch the brilliant 'The Windors' TV series instead which pokes fun at today's Royals in a ..."
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Though the year of the action is never stated, the radio newsreader reporting the election result gives the date as 15th October. This must be a Friday, as UK General Elections are always held on a Thursday. The fifteenth of October fell on a Friday in 1993, which would tie in with the apparent ages of Princes William and Harry (though not with the Queen Mother claiming to be 92; she turned 93 in August of that year. Possibly she simply forgot).
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A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.