We all love a parody, and with the royal family making the headlines this month, we couldn't resist revisiting some fab regal reads. The Queen and I by Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend, explores what might happen if the royals were stripped of their titles and jewels and sent to live amongst everyday folk in the Midlands...This is a seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin. The monarchy has been dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), 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. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?
