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The Queen and I

AuthorSue Townsend

NarratorAngela Thorne

Duration7h 24m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, Humour and Comedy

PublisherW.F. Howes

VersionUnabridged

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When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging 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. Is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?

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