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Queen Camilla
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Summary
Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be Queen, and public opinion suggests the people would rather have Jordan than Camilla on the throne. But no sooner has Prince William offered himself as the next monarch than one Graham Cracknall of Ruislip emerges, claiming to be Charles and Camilla's secret love child, and therefore the rightful heir to the crown.
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- kerbhugger
- 13-02-22
Not as good as The Queen and I.
Enjoyable enough. Narration a tad irritating with "he said she said" badly phrased /pauses.
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- RLCP
- 19-05-22
Great story but….
I’ve read this book more than once in the past and enjoy the story. That’s all I have to say about the actual text of the book.
I have a bigger issue though. The narration in this version is just….something. The narrator manages the accents of the majority of characters very well, but there are a couple that are really inappropriate. To hear a white woman attempting to speak like an Asian man or as a West Indian guy is all kinds of wrong. It came across as though they were trying to perpetuate racial stereotypes or actually just being unconsciously racist.
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- James Brodhurst-Brown
- 12-09-19
Reader put me off
Great book - couldn’t finish as the reader was so annoying it made me cringe. Truly annoying
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- The Piebald Princess
- 25-07-22
Queen Camilla
Not as good as The Queen and I, but still worth a listen for a light heated tale.
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- Kirstine
- 10-05-08
Entertaining, but a bit savage
There are many funny scenes and moments in this book read with great gusto by Patricia Gallimore. Listeners to the Archers (she's Pat Archer) will be surprised to hear her having to swear like a trooper throughout the reading! The story is rather like a light-hearted combination of Orwell's 1984 crossed with a touch of Animal Farm. I enjoyed the story but have misgivings about the cruelty of some of the satire directed at the Royal family. I'm no Royalist, far from it, but while the lampooned politicians in the book are fictitious, the Royals are real people who can't answer back. I particularly disliked the depiction of Prince Phillip as an incontinent and demented inmate of a care home.
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- Miss
- 01-07-21
strange how art imitates life
if you enjoyed The Queen and I you'll love this. especially William and Harry, not to mention Susan and Harris
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- caroline
- 05-06-23
Loving this.
Sue Townsend's imagination and sense of humour is fantastic. I can't get enough of her and this is another fantastic book with great narration. The narration is slightly OTT but totally suits the style of the book and in this context is superb. The Prince Charles voice coming from a female narrator is brilliant. Love it.
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- Mr Image
- 03-01-21
Worth it just for the narration.
The narration is fantastic. Just stick with the plot as it drags on but has much of Sue’s observations and humour to accompany what I class as her hardest book to read. I never liked the book but surprisingly it is rescued by the narration. This is what Audible is about, turns the book into a 4 star instead of a one star.
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- Seven of nine
- 14-02-24
Absolutely outstanding
I love the work of Sue Townsend, and this is one of her best . Beautifully crafted and wonderfully told.

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- Nicholas
- 21-01-08
Enjoyable
Okay, so it's Sue Townsend, not Proust or Balzac, but this is a funny and heart-warming imaginary tale.
The story becomes believable in these times of eroded civil liberties. Maybe a 21st Century Prime Minister could manipulate Parliament to create concentration camps for undesirables and exile the Royal Family. Ms Townsend certainly does make it believable.
The narration does give you the mental image of Prince Charles fretting over the chickens he keeps in the back yard of his council-house garden, so proud of the washing up bowl he bought in the Pound Shop earlier that day. The rest of the Royal Family are similarly brought to life in the setting of a fenced in estate comprising of wife-beaters, benefit-cheats and chavs.
There is a real working-class grit that shows both the love and the ghastliness of council-estate Britain that is accentuated by the contrast between the underclass and the Royals that are forced to share their existence.
The story is engaging, sad, cheery, depressing and totally believeable in the same way as Orwell's 1984.
I could barely stop listening.
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