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A Right Royal Question.

Serial documentarian Jon-Paul Gates (The Color of your skin, Rescue Me: International – Cat Rescue, Love on Demand, Red Army Hooligans, The Howling 2017) brings us his sixth program, all about the royal family, along with Royal biographer Penny Junor (Diana, Princess of Wales (1982), Charles, Prince of Wales (1987 and 1998), Charles and Diana: Portrait of a Marriage (1991), The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor (2005)). Between them, they ask all the questions about the Royal family, their past exploits and what may come.

First off Prince Harry gets his life choices critiqued, from his formative years when his mother (Princess Diana) was still alive, and to the present day with him and his wife Megan leaving the Royals and the country.

It is very cold… in Canada.

Next is how Diana changed the face of the Royal family for ever and how her relationship with Prince Charles began and how it ended in such tragic circumstances, and the aftermath and where to place the blame.

Who calls the shots?

Then there is the issue of the brothers William and Harry, and how once upon-a-time they held hands in support of each other and now the rift that is continents wide. How the Invictus hero is poles apart from the family man that would be King, but when?

William and Kate… The Golden couple.

Is the next King Charles? Some are saying it should pass straight to William, but then again Charles is the man with the most experience to take the head of the Firm. From his ‘whacky’ ideas of ecology back in the day to his opinions on the architecture of the capital city to his controversial marriage, to growing in stature as a Royal couple.

Then there is the elephant in the room… Prince Andrew and what did or did not happen in the USA and his non-relationship with the FBI.

A Kingdom for a Crown is well-balanced if slightly cheeky in its approach to the British Royal Family, but it does address the questions on our tongues even if you are looking from the outside across the ‘pond’, or across the dinner table. Well worth an hour of your time.

A Kingdom is available on Amazon Prime