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The Queen and I by Townsend, Sue is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Queen and I about?
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 andtitles 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?
Who reads The Queen and I?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Townsend, Sue
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780413650009
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humour
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (105 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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