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    Queen Camilla
    Queen Camilla
    Queen Camilla
    Audiobook12 hours

    Queen Camilla

    Written by Sue Townsend

    Narrated by Patricia Gallimore

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    THE BRILLIANTLY FUNNY SEQUEL TO THE QUEEN AND I FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADRIAN MOLE SERIES

    What if being Royal was a crime?

    The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclusion Zone with the other villains and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate.

    Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning ... unless his wife Camilla can be Queen in a newly restored monarchy.

    But when a scoundrel who claims to be the couple's secret love-child offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal show down.

    And the question for Camilla (and rest of the country) will be: Queen of the vegetable patch or Queen of England?

    'Brilliantly satirical' Evening Standard

    'One of our finest living comic writers' The Times

    'Brilliantly funny' Closer
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateNov 1, 2007
    ISBN9781407411712
    Queen Camilla
    Author

    Sue Townsend

    Sue Townsend was born in Leicester, England, in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications, and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she managed to be very well read. Townsend wrote secretly for twenty years, and after joining a writers’ group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television Award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. Following the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, she continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience with seven more volumes of Adrian’s diaries, five popular novels—including The Queen and I, Number Ten, and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year—and numerous well-received plays. Townsend passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight, and remains widely regarded as Britain’s favorite comic writer.  

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    • 5/5
      This is a continuation of Sue Townsend’s previous book about the Royal Family, “The Queen and I”. Now I haven’t personally any knowledge of Camilla’s personality since I don’t live in Britain and do not continually see her on TV; but since I note and admire the author’s amazing grasp of the personalities of the other Royals, I trust that her depiction of Camilla is equally accurate.Britain has turned into a totalitarian 1984-like society with Jack Barker as Prime Minister. Council estates have been converted into Exclusion Zones “where the criminal, the antisocial, the inadequate, the feckless, the agitators, the disgraced professionals, the stupid, the drug-addicted and the morbidly obese” live. The Royal Family, those who have not fled abroad, are living in the Flowers Exclusion Zone (I don’t know which category of the above-stated unfortunates they fall into.)Prince Charles regularly wins the Best Kept Garden Award, whereas his neighbours’ garden is “an eyesore of old mattresses --- and festering rubbish bags”.The residents of the Exclusion Zone are required to wear an ankle tag and carry an identity card at all times. Their movements are monitored by the security police on CCTV screens. Difficulties occur for the Queen when she forgets to take her identity card with her, though, of course, everyone knows who she is.“When Camilla’s tag had been fitted --- she had said, with her usual cheerful pragmatism ‘I think it flatters my ankle beautifully.’ By contrast, Princess Anne had wrestled two security police to the floor before a third officer had finally managed to attach her tag.”Jack Barker laughed when his government was accused of being totalitarian. He wasn’t a Stalin or a Mao; it wasn’t his fault there were no viable opposition parties.Now I haven’t read “1984” recently, but the society Sue Townsend here depicts seems to be just as Orwell predicted. With a mere click on a switch Inspector Lancer has access to full, detailed information about a specific citizen.For example:“Bronchitis every winter, otherwise healthy. Menstrual cycle: first week of every month, complains of severe pain. History: Unsettled at nursery school, constantly cries for mother, At four years --- vocabulary v. poor, when shown a picture of a cow could not name it.”The book is filled with dogs and these communicate avidly with each other and their owners; the author provides us with an interpretation of their various utterances.“(Camilla to Charles)‘Darling, do you think a dog knows it’s a dog?’ asked Camilla.‘It depends what you mean by know’, said Charles.Freddie (one of Camilla’s dogs) snapped, ‘Of course I know I’m a bloody dog. I eat from a bowl on the floor. I shit in the street ---.’”It looks now (with the way things are going in 2017) as though Sue Townsend also had prophetic gifts. Australia is now to be the first country in the world to introduce compulsory tagging of all persons so authorities will be able continually to keep checks on the activities of each individual.Jack Barker makes it illegal to have more than one dog per household, so the rest must be disposed of. The Royals all have several dogs so this affects them greatly. And the vociferous dogs themselves also have something to say about the matter.The leader of the Conservative party Boy English, wants to restore the monarchy and thus set Queen Elizabeth back on the throne: she, however, has plans to abdicate. It turns out that Charles and Camilla have an illegitimate son, Graham, a rather unsympathetic person, born years ago; he is now second in line to the throne.The book is impeccably well-written and divinely funny. We learn about all the quirks of the Royal Family; the Queen is in the forefront, as in the previous book. The book is exquisitely readable and I can highly recommend it.
    • 4/5
      a rare laugh-out-loud book. Poor Prince Charles among the proles, struggling to find the right tone in his note to the milkman.
    • 4/5
      England is now a monarchy and the royal family is living in an exclusion zone with criminals, the insane and the morbidly obese. Whilst the Prime Minister, Jack Barker, wants to implement anti-dog laws, the leader of the opposition pledges to restore the monarchy if elected. However the Elizabeth Windsor is not sure she wants to be Queen again and there is the small matter of Charles and Camilla’s long lost son. An amusing romp.
    • 3/5
      Queen Camilla is the sequel to Townsend's hysterically funny 1992 novel, The Queen & I. Thirteen years on, the Royals are still living in Hellebore Close, but now, however, the former estate of council houses has been made over into an "Exclusion Zone" where suspected terrorists, sexual perverts, the morbidly obese and other unsavory groups of people are house to keep them from contaminating the normal law-abiding public.In a portrait of the nanny state run amok, Townsend paints a portrait of politicians who live by the public opinion polls & use the media to distort that public opinion. In this mirror, the Royals, especially the Queen, seem to stand head & shoulders above the crowd.Unlike the first book, Townsend's humor in this volume seems dripped with acid, not unlike John Mortimer's in his Paradise Postponed & Titmus Regained novels. Perhaps this is just a reflection of the times when subjects that used to a source of fun are now too serious (or irritating) to be mocked without a sense of hard feelings.
    • 3/5
      I loved the Queen and I, so I had high expectations for the sequel. I was, however, a little bit disappointed. Townsend has obviously chosen for a more critical approach, which is good, but not why I wanted to read the book.Also, she doesn't seem to make a choice about the feelings of Charles and Camilla for each other. Do they annoy each other, or do they love each other?I hated the ending. So many plotlines still hanging...what happened to Gin and Tonic, what happened to Dwayne, etc etc etc. We will never know.