The comedian stars as the monarch in a coronation special of The Windsors – but parody is not without empathy, he says
Britain may have entered a new regnal era, but satire is hanging on to some recognisable features from the last century.
The royal family were a mainstay during the heyday of the satirical puppet show, appearing as frequently as the politicians of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet. Charles generally popped up as a soppy sort of neo-hippy. Down the decades, mimics have tended to focus on the same few physical foibles of the future king, so Enfield suspects there would have been a fair amount of cuff-action back in his teenage attempts: “It was all quite mild though.”
“And since then, he’s had all these years of duty to perform, so I do have sympathy for him. And one other thing that has helped me identify is that, if you look, he’s got stupid little hands and so have I. Sausagey fingers.”
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