Revealed: Coronation venue switched to a Holiday Lodge Express in Slough! (Well, that’s according to Channel 4’s hit royal spoof, The Windsors…)
- Programme makers release three new clips ahead of Sunday’s broadcast
- The C4 comedy will dramatise THAT fight between William and Harry
Channel 4’s has revealed that its hit spoof The Windsors will pit King Charles against austerity-minded William and Princess Anne – who want the Coronation staged in Slough!
Viewers can see the fictional confrontation between Charles and his heir in three new clips, released today, which also imagine a scene in Montecito as Harry and Meghan collect eggs near a statue of Oprah, and a bizarre contretemps between Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh and Pippa Middleton.
The Coronation special, which airs on Sunday, opens with King Charles (played by Harry Enfield) daydreaming about the ceremony:
‘Finally, it’s going to happen. Westminster Abbey packed to the gills. World leaders staring at me in awe. No, no President Biden no need to kneel. Crowds chanting my name.’
Channel 4’s royal spoof, The Windsors, pits King Charles, played by Harry Enfield, against austerity-minded son and heir, Prince William
Harry, played by Richard Goulding is filmed chatting to wife Meghan, played by Kathryn Drysdale, for Sunday’s Coronation special edition of The Windsors
However, William teams up with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to lobby for a budget Coronation in times of austerity. William replaces the snoozing Duke of Norfolk with Princess Anne, the Princess Royal.
‘I’ve consulted with the country’s top headhunting firms and based purely on merit,’ says William, ‘the best person to organise a slim-down no-frills budget Coronation is…’
At which point, Anne pops up saying: ‘I’ve cancelled the Abbey and booked the Holiday Lodge Express in Slough.
The special edition of The Windsors imagines a battle between King Charles, who wants and oppulent Coronation and his austerity-minded sister, Princess Anne, played by Vicki Pepperdine (left) and Rishi Sunak, played by Amit Shah
William, King Charles and Queen Camilla line up for the Coronation special edition of Channel 4’s The Windsors – as played by Hugh Skinner, Harry Enfield and Haydn Gwynne
The programme makers will also dramatise the now-notorious fight between William and his brother Harry, who wrote about it in his memoir, Spare.
In the first version of the dust-up, imagined from William’s point of view, the two princes spar before the Prince of Wales accidently hits the Duke of Sussex.
He then apologises and clink pints of beer. ‘We had a fight,’ says William, played by actor Hugh Skinner. ‘It was just a bit or horseplay.’
The camera then pans to Santa Barbara, where Harry, played by Richard Goulding, and Meghan, played by Kathryn Drysdale, are collecting eggs from their chickens.
Talking about William, Harry says: ‘Actually, I’ve been thinking about him a lot recently,’ before showing a black and white scene of the two princes wearing boxing gloves before Harry collapses in the ring.
‘I remember our fight so clearly, he says. ‘I haven’t exaggerated any of it.’ Turning to Meghan, he adds: ‘Did I ever tell you he always got the best bedroom at Balmoral? And he had a Star Wars duvet and I had Paddington, which is really babyish.’
In his autobiography Spare, Harry claimed that a ‘piping hot’ William injured his back by pushing him onto a dog bowl after a fight over a conversation about his relationship with William, rows with the press and wife Meghan.
He claimed that the Prince of Wales grabbed him by the collar, ripping his necklace, and pushed him over in the kitchen, causing him to land on a dog bowl which shattered and hurt his back.
The Windsors Coronation Special is on Sunday at 9pm on Channel 4 and All 4.
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