The Queen and I

This could have been so much better. The book written by the late Sue Townsend. I've read the book on numerous occasions over the last 20 years and it's not at all how I pictured it. Where was Prince Phillip? Why was he excluded? It seemed very rushed. Johnny Vegas casting as Spiggy was about the only decent thing.

Such a shame. Sorry Sue.

A refreshing tell on the real-life situations that people are so eager to hide from. Touched on so many topics and situations which are causing issues today. Great watch with many ups and downs and a great feel-good ending.

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 playful and very funny way.

Would've hit the mark if it was written for todays world, but its 25 years too late!

As others here have said with such a cast it should have been so much better. Only for rainy afternoons when there is simply nothing else on... better to seek out the superb series The Windsors.