What to watch
The Windsors Royal Wedding Special
CHANNEL 4, 9.00PM
It would take a particularly thinskinned member of the Windsor clan to take offence at this gleefully idiotic comedy. Back for a one-off episode after two excellent series, this special sprinkles just enough grains of truth (or plausibility, at least) to give it a satirical pungency that is reminiscent of peak-era Spitting Image.
Here, Prince Harry (Richard Goulding) seems more excited about his stag do than his wedding to Meghan Markle (Kathryn Drysdale); the Duchess of Cambridge (Louise Ford) is battling both the machinations of her jealous sibling Pippa (Morgana Robinson) to retake centre-stage, and her husband the Duke of Cambridge’s (Hugh Skinner) attempts to dodge a vasectomy. Meanwhile, Beatrice (Ellie White, the pick of a magnificently game cast) has a political awakening after a chance encounter with Jeremy Corbyn (Tom Basden); while her mother Fergie (Katy Wix) is offered a TV reporting gig for the wedding, forcing her to choose between family loyalty and filthy lucre… From dance routines and dream sequences to Windsor council’s Tramp catcher (Paul Kaye), this is daft and shrewd, but never meanspirited.