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Royal sex shocker on TV
05/11/2005 19:34 - (SA)
London - Scenes were released on Friday from a British television drama entitled The Queen's Sister, featuring the late princess Margaret in graphic sex scenes, lesbian clinches and smoking cannabis.
Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, is portrayed commenting that the attractive women around him are the only thing livening up the tiresome royal life.
The Channel Four television drama, to be screened later this month, opens with the words "Some of the following is based on fact, and some isn't".
The programme is described as a "sympathetic" portrait of Margaret, the queen's only sibling, who died aged 71 in February 2002.
However, her ex-husband Lord Antony Snowdon, 75, is alive and reportedly "incandescent with rage" over the drama.
Margaret is portrayed as a racy royal who enjoys a lingering kiss with a US socialite. She is also shown performing a sex act on Snowdon in a filthy outside toilet.
The drama portrays Margaret's life from her romance with Royal Air Force officer Peter Townsend through her rocky marriage with photographer Snowdon and her affair with gardener Roddy Llewellyn.
In one scene, Philip advises Snowdon about royal life.
He tells Snowdon he should always walk behind Margaret: "Don't think of it as your wife you are walking behind. Think of it as England. Get used to the role of consort."
Some royal duties can be "tiresome" and you "can't let one's hair down for a moment", Philip says.
However, there is one way of livening up affairs: "There is always some striking totty about."
And no-one can "complain about to seeing to one's own duties when she's got to attend to hers".
When Margaret falls in love with Snowdon she tells him: "If you had seen some of the chinless toffs I have been paired up with you wouldn't blame me for wanting someone with a bit of muck under his nails."
She also drinks ale in a pub to prove she is not a snob, but ends up involved in a fracas.
Executive producer Rob Rursey said: "The challenge was not to throw mud or mock her further."
The drama hits British screens on November 27.
- AFP
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