While streets up and down the UK will be adorned in Union Jack flags, neighbours coming together to share crust-less cucumber sandwiches and get through the unwanted booze that’s been sitting in the back of the cabinet since Christmas 2013 to mark the momentous moment King Charles is crowned, well, king, some will be hibernating well away from the celebrations because, frankly, they just don’t care.
Sounds like you?
Well for all the anti-royalists who feel like hell is freezing over this weekend, there is plenty of television to quench your anti-monarchist thirst.
From South Park to young Windsor Harry’s bombshell documentary – feast on these protest programmes until your heart’s delight.
Harry & Meghan
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made global headlines with their warts and all Netflix series, Harry & Meghan.
The six-parter follows the couple behind closed doors after their decision to step back from life as working royals for a new life across the bond.
From an intimate look at the early days of their romantic relationship to celebrating milestones with their children (Archie, three, and Lilibet, one), the series shows the most talked about couple as we’ve never seen them before.
Additionally, we see Harry and Meghan speak candidly about life in the institution and their choice to walk away.
In their own words and those of loved ones, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex recount their legal battle with the press, their bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview, bullying allegations against Meghan, and their therapy sessions.
Harry or ‘H’ as he’s called by his doting wife throughout, recalled actual physical fights with his brother, accused the place of ‘leaking’ false stories and relayed the colossal impact being raised in ‘The Firm’ had on his mental health.
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It would be an understatement to say the series made waves as, despite receiving mixed reviews, it was the most-watched premiere for a Netflix show in 2022 in the UK, and was watched for a total of 81.6million hours on its first four days.
If anti-monarchy is what you want, Harry & Meghan is a perfect place to start.
Prince Andrew: The Musical
From one headline-grabbing royal to another, we have Prince Andrew: The Musical.
The comical, all-singing, all-dancing performance reimagines the Duke of York’s very public fall from grace.
Starring Kieran Hodgson, Munya Chawawa, Harry Enfield, and Joe Wilkinson, the Channel 4 project covers all of Prince Andrew’s controversies and key events in his life.
From his relationships to that 2019 trainwreck interview with journalist Emily Maitlis, it’s a real rollercoaster.
It was arguably one of the most unexpected shows to come out of the past year but managed to bring some humour to some very serious allegations made against the disgraced royal, such as the time he claimed he couldn’t sweat and used visits to Pizza Express as an alibi.
The Snuke – South Park
South Park has gone in on the royal family not once but twice. Even by South Park standards, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone really stuck two fingers up at the monarchy.
The long-running series was blasted for ‘crossing the line,’ even with calls for it to be banned in the UK, after creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone ‘killed’ Queen Elizabeth II in the 2007 episode The Snuke.
The episode sparked intense backlash and calls for South Park to be banned in the UK, depicting Liz – who died in 2022 – taking her own life by shooting herself when a plot to overthrow the US failed.
Royal Pudding – South Park
Four years later, it was Kate and Wills turn to get the South Park treatment in Royal Pudding.
Following the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Parker and Stone reimagined their big day with band playing ‘the march of a thousand farts’ while a spoof of the Queen ‘queefs’ sat in the front row.
As William walks down the aisle, onlookers throw cereal at him, instead of confetti, while later Kate shows up labelled as ‘pure of heart, strong in body, hot in the face.’
The newlyweds dip their arms in a batch of butterscotch pudding before the wedding takes a dramatic turn as the Canadian princess is kidnapped.
Westminster Abbey then collapses and the episode centres the mission to save the princess, while the wedding continues to go ahead.
Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy
Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy aired just a week before Charles’ coronation celebrations kicked off as part of Channel 4’s pretty out there alternative coverage.
In typical Frankie style, he takes a sardonic and ruthless look at the current state of affairs and explores the monarchy’s 1,000-year history, as well as looking to the future.
No stone is left unturned, from wife beheading slave trading, and misogyny, to empire building, land theft, and so much more, as Frankie questions how such events have shaped the Royal Family as we know it today, ultimately asking – should it continue?
The Windsors
The Windsors first aired in 2016, reimagining the Royal Family as a classic soap opera – before it actually became a real-life soap opera.
Starring Harry Enfield, Haydn Gwynne, Hugh Skinner, Louise Ford, Richard Goulding, across four series The Windsors has seen Kate Middleton contract Ebola and enjoy a fling with the Archbishop of Canterbury, William calling for a referendum to abolish the monarchy and, perhaps the most implausible storyline of all, Princess Beatrice gets a job.
In honour of the coronation, a special episode followed the family squabbling over plans for Charles’ big day during the Cozzie lives [cost of living crisis to anyone not familiar with 2023 lingo].
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