Revisiting British royalty myths in Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader

A number of English writers have started to criticize the monarchy in line with
public anti-monarchist views which are mainly stimulated by campaign group
Republic.
2 Among them, Sue Townsend (1946 – ) is both comical and subtly ironic
in her novels The Queen and I (1992), Number Ten (2002) or Queen Camilla
(2006). In The Uncommon Reader (2006/2008), the critical voice of another
English writer, Alan Bennett (1934 – ), is milder and more sympathetic; yet,
underneath the apparently humorous attitude concerning the British monarchy, he
also tackles some significant concerns or complaints of the British subjects
concerning their sovereign.