Production: A Royal Audience with Gyles Brandreth - A Diamond Jubilee Special
Dates:

20th May 2012	:	Cambridge Arts Theatre	(Cambridge)
12th Jul 2012	:	Magdalen College School Arts Festival, Oxford	(Oxford)

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Description: When Gyles Brandreth published his portrait of The Queen and Prince Philip it was described by Craig Brown in the Mail on Sunday as ‘A joy – thoughtful, outrageous, sympathetic, often hilarious, occasionally profound and unfailingly interesting. I came away with the strong feeling that I had glimpsed the Queen and Prince Philip for the first time as they really are.’

To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, Gyles Brandreth – writer, actor, wit and raconteur – presents a unique evening of stories, revelations and insights about The Queen and her family. A Royal Audience with Gyles Brandreth is exactly that: a chance to meet the man who – according to Libby Purves in The Times – ‘got closest to the human truth about our long-serving royals’. With tales of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Prince Harry (and one or two about the Queen Mother, Queen Victoria and even Elizabeth I along the way) this promises to be an entertaining, sometimes surprising, and often touching, right royal celebration.


Gyles Brandreth is a former MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, now best known as a reporter on The One Show (BBC1) and a regular on Just A Minute (Radio 4). His two royal biographies have been much acclaimed.


‘PROBABLY THE MOST REVEALING EVER PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN.’
Marian Finucane, RTE

‘THE MOST INSIGHTFUL PORTRAIT OF PRINCE PHILIP WRITTEN TO DATE.’
Robert Lacey, SUNDAY TIMES

‘WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING… IMPRESSIVE … COMPELLING’
John-Paul Flintoff, FINANCIAL TIMES

‘THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING . . . FILLED WITH INSIGHTS . . .
HE HAS HAD ENVIABLE ACCESS AND HE HAS USED IT WELL.’
Penny Junor, DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘CHEEKY, GOSSIPY, OFTEN HIGHLY AMUSING . . .
A MOST ENGAGINGLY INTIMATE VOLUME.’
Peter Mackay, EVENING STANDARD

‘Could this be the best book ever written about the Royal Family? … A masterpiece.’
Roger Lewis, Sunday Express

‘My book of the year: riveting, gossipy and touching.’
Beryl Bainbridge, Mail on Sunday