A 'Times' leader calls for the dismantling of the monarchy, and a week later it comes to pass. A Republican government wins the election in 1992, and overnight the royal family is stripped of its regal underpinnings and dispatched by the new prime minister . . . to live on a hellhole council estate in the Midlands.
Full of sharp-eyed, delicious sentimentality, 'The Queen And I' is not about the Royal Family but poverty and how bad things really are at the other end of the carpet. An absorbing, entertaining, escapist and funny book.
