Royal couple portrayed in TV advertisements
By
KEN COATES
in London British television viewers will soon watch commercials showing actors dressed up as the Prince and Princess of Wales. Twenty commercials are being made to advertise a new play, ‘ Her Royal Highness." being staged’ in Londons West End. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said this would be the first time that members of the Royal Family would be portrayed in British television commercials. The director. Mr Ray Cooney, who co-wrole the pro-
duction. insists that the play does not ridicule Royalty. It is an affectionate look at the Prince and Princess, he says. It may well be all that’he says, but the box-office peal performance does include an imaginative look at how the Princess of Wales might have developed second thoughts before the wedding, thus making the Prince look for a substitute bride — a raucous Australian barmaid. The Queen, it is said, watches a good deal of television in her apartments at Buckingham Palace when she has no Royal duties to attend to. She could well be not amused.
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