Ruritania

Episode aired Dec 14, 2023
TV-MA
48m

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7.4/10

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Eager to improve the monarchy's public image, the Queen seeks out savvy statesman Tony Blair--but the Prime Minister's advice defies royal protocol.Eager to improve the monarchy's public image, the Queen seeks out savvy statesman Tony Blair--but the Prime Minister's advice defies royal protocol.Eager to improve the monarchy's public image, the Queen seeks out savvy statesman Tony Blair--but the Prime Minister's advice defies royal protocol.

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Trivia
The title, 'Ruritania', refers to an imaginary kingdom of central Europe that was the setting of several novels by English novelist Anthony Hope, especially The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).

Goofs
When Elizabeth imagines Tony Blair's coronation, the royal cypher on his chair reads "TIR" (or Tony Rex I). A royal cypher, as Elizabeth would surely know, would never include a Roman numeral I because British monarchs don't receive an ordinal until a second monarch takes the same name, so his cypher should only read "TR" (similar to the last unnumbered monarch Queen Victoria, whose cypher was VR).

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Featured review

7/10

The only way

There is something schizophrenic in the people's wish to have a more "approachable" monarchy and then despise them when they behave like everybody else. As pointed out by the queen in this episode, the monarchy must remain a bit detached from reality. After all, the "people" did not love Diana for being normal, but for being "special"...

This episode is also funny, presenting Blair at his top popularity (King Tony) and some of the most bizarre "jobs" done for the crown. My favourite was the Swans Master, or whatever the title was.

Well made and entertaining and finally out of the shadow cast by Diana.