Rating: 
Summary: Not really fantastic
Review: When I started reading the book I did not really like it. I do not know a thing about the Royal family of England and it is not really something I am interested in either. But I must admit that there are quite a few funny parts in the story. Sue Townsend criticises a lot of social aspects of Britain in the book which could make you think about certain matters in a different way. It is not a book I would choose to read myself even though a lot of people love it, but it is a nice book.
Rating:
Summary: Nice...not more.
Review: When I started to read this book I didn't know what to expect but while reading I was surprised that the book really had some funny moments (for instance "a bonk a day keeps the doctor away.") and that the writer creatively combined a more serious matter (the royal family) with imagination and humour.
But unfortunately, this creative work abruptly ends when you hit the end of the book and wonder why you have spend all that time reading this book when it ends in a way as if a young child made it up. I thought that this story would end in a more surprising way. Some readers might think that the ending is surprising but I think it's not creative enough in comparison to the content of the whole book. Because the book takes you on a (rather long trip) and when it you close the book in the end you might feel a bit unsatisfied.
Rating: 
Summary: The Best!!!!
Review: When the Republicans win the British elections and the Royal Family is forced to move to an awful council estate in the Midlands and live on welfare, we enter a crazy surreal world in which the Queen has to walk downtown in order to get groceries and Prince Charles gets thrown in jail!I loved this story! The crazier the better. And it couldn't get much crazier than this!
On almost every single page something happens that you just can't imagine ever happening to the Royal family. But after I while you really start to believe it, as unrealistic as it is. I think it is the gradual transition that takes place in most members of the family that makes you feel like this. Except for William and Harry of course, they seemed to get used to everything almost immediately!
The only thing I didn't like that much was the ending. Even though it did make sense.
Rating: 
Summary: The queen and I; fun for all
Review: When the Republicans win the election in 92, the lives of the Royal family are about change dramatically. They are not royal anymore, just citizens. They have to move out of their palace and live in a small house. They have difficulties fitting in but Prince Philip has the most difficulties with it. Besides the personal problems are there the countries financial problems. Almost bankrupt they are joined with Japan. As you would expect at the end.. it was all a bad dream. The queen just dreamt it all.
It was a fun, fiction book. In enjoyed reading it.
Rating:
Summary: The Queen and I
Review: When the Republicans win the elections of 1992, The Queen of Great Britain and the entire royal family are enforced to move out of Buckingham Palace because the Republicans are against a monarchy. The royal family is stripped of its regal underpinnings and dispatched by the new prime minister, to live in a hellhole council estate in the Midlands
Each member of the Royal Family tries to cope with their "loss" in their own way, have to come to terms with their new situation. Diana mingles with her vulgar neighbours and has an affair, Charles also falls in love and has to go to jail because he hit someone, Philip refuses to accept his new life and therefore starves himself and won't come out of bed. Harry and William hang on the streets every day and adapt very quickly to their new lifestyle but the one who is most able to cope is of course the Queen. Totally unexpected the royal family come to terms with their new situation in a series of very funny scenes. But eventually everything gets resolved by the fact that is was all a bad dream. The day after election night the Queen wakes up and realises that the hole story was just a dream/nightmare. Comment on the book: I enjoyed reading this book but I wouldn't read it again. Though I have to say that while reading the book I could imagine how that "hellhole" and the royal family would look, in their ordinary clothes. I found this image very funny. Unfortunately is the ending very predictable but I didn't waste my time reading this book. It was funny.
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