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"A baggy and charmless rush through royal history."
CUE THE QUEEN: CELEBRATING THE CHRISTMAS SPEECH, BBC1
"It was a baggy and charmless rush through royal history, which wasted a fine opportunity to show how gracefully the Queen has aged. Instead, we got tasteless stories, such as the one about the producer whose flies split open during filming: 'I had to be sewn back into my trousers,' he said. Charming."
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
"Most of the entertainment to be derived was of the inadvertent kind, in this drearily deferential affair about one of our more curious traditions."
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