Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96
Where's the sticky?
>>214987784NOOOO, not Hyacinth!Big F, gonna marathon KUA in her honor.
>>214987784what a legend
she was just a kid
She was a real one
See, many people think that this is a simple comedy about class envy and ideas above your station. They are so wrong.For example, has anyone considered the hints of erotic depth of Hyacinth? Many see Richard as a henpecked, feeble man. Truth is, he is a man who values Hyacinth's erotic qualities so much that he is willing to play the role of nagged husband. The sex with her must be unbelievably great to have him stay with her. He could have his pick of women. Rose often seems to offer her stinky whiffparcel in his direction, but he only has eyes for his dominant BBW lingerie goddess, Hyacinth. Her candlelight suppers were a euphemism for intense orgy sessions and Hyacinth's big round buttockballoon was coveted by all the men in the neighbourhood, even the vicar guy. He may have had to throw holy water on her gash first, but he was all over that thing like Philip Schofield to the opening of a Morrisons.
>>214987784Looked good for 90+.
I recommend her in the "talking heads" monologues written by Alan Bennett and the more deliberately jokey ones written by Victoria Wood.
>>214987784Ohhhhh nooooooShe was brilliant
>>214987824This should be stickied fr
>>214987784Patricia bros...
Hyacinth, as classy as she was, always struck me as the type of woman who didn't regularly wash her vulva. These 'old ladies' as you might put it, had a wealth of experience and a sexual energy that you can't get with younger women. From my own experience, the severe ravages of age only really show on the face and once you get those clothes off, often you will have a banging body with a beautiful natural bush and beautiful clothes peg nipples. I wish my grandmother had looked like Rose. I wouldn't have minded emptying her commode then
>>214987824Sticky? Jannis will start to regognize kino on the day they stop sucking.
>>214987784Fuck, I'm genuinely sad about this. My parents used to love watching this show on ABC when I was a kid.Good onya Hyacinth. Say hello to Onslow for us.
>>214987784
>>214987784She’s kicked the Bouquet?
>>214987871Is that supposed to be a Pepe version of Mark Kermode?
>>214987784Helllooo sticky residence?
>>214987975F
>who the fuck-->*look at the time*>7 am americhads hours>prime bong hoursOh okay.
>>214988003Uncultured mutt.Keeping Up Appearances had global success.
>>214987784R.i.P in peace Mrs. Bucket
>>214988038She's very big in Botswana, you know.
>>214987784That horrible bucket woman died?
RIP
>1990-1995I wanna go back, tvbros
>She never marriedI could have been her Richard, bros...
>>214987784F
>>214988123>>She never marriedThere was a reason for that anon...
Don't know who this is but RIP in peace
>>214987784Until You're 90!
>>214987982It is
>>214988122soon all the middle age people alive in the 90s will be gone
>>214988149>in the same interview, Routledge discussed two affairs she had been involved in: one with a married man while in her late 20s and the other being some years later with a man directing a play in which she was appearingShe was a slut.
Cooorrr
>>214988156Kek
>>214988216There are basically no actors who played old people on British TV in the 90s left alive (except Stephanie Cole).
Richard my dear, come along now. I'm in my sexiest undergarments and my hairy pussy is glistening as I spread my legs waiting for you to feast on my love crumpet. Yes Richard dear, see how I rub my wooded gashpastry as I flop my ample breasts out of their confines and suck on my mammoth nipples. I am on all fours Richard dear with my round, soft bum pointing to the heavens as I prepare myself for the task at hand. Yes love, come on, come on. Attack my dripping slot with your bounteous bollockpipe. I shan't be settling for just one orgasm my dear.
>>214987784F. Also, impressive that Roy Clarke at 95 is still alive.
RICHARD DEAR, SHERIDAN HAS GOT AIDS AND DADDY HAS ESCAPED
>>214987913Reminds me of the time I found a book about a famous case of gang rape in my grandmother's bookshelf. I didn't think anything of it at the time; just that she was curious about the case. Years later, I realised she was probably turned on by it and may have used it as fap material. Sickening.
>>214988325deeper, richard! harder!
>>214987956used it always see this on the tellynever sat down and watched it, but its a comfy memory from my childhood
>>214987871There is that joke that the Major is attracted to her.
>>214987996>Yeah, I will get sticky for her-AAAAAHHHH>You're supposed to push cape shit threads!!!
>>214988329name of book?
>>214987871This is what gave me a fetish for loving bossy bbw milfs based pasta
>>214988122>only the actors of emmet and daisy are still alive
>>214988038>Keeping Up Appearances had global success.Very popular in Scandi countries.
>>214988080Fucking kequeAnd F
>>214988058I've literally turned into him and I'm only 34
>>214987871pottery
>>214988269Fuck she kinda has the same look and energy as my big titty English momFack
>>214988271for some reason I never realised there were two actresses playing rose
>>214988296I don't believe it
>>214988404Can confirmWe loved Brit TV when it wasn't just niggers and Brit music when it wasn't just nigger drill music
>>214988408that's finehe was 28 when the show started
>>214987784https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6XkYg9bHPE>It's nice to remember
OH SHERIDAN
>>214988296>>214988453if you put just one foot in the grave, you can stay alive almost indefinitely
How much longer?
I find it mindboggling how kids in the 90s had the attention span to watch a show like this
>>214988514Dench is half blind now. She can't read scripts.
>>214988514>Dench has been old since my parents were kidswild
Richaaaaaaard!
>>214987784RIP
>>214988518Half her luck!
>>214988515Our mommy gmilf issues had to find release somewhere
>>214988471Fucmbeee
>>214988515That goes for most things. Even movies and even children's movies were more slow burn 25+ years ago. Script writing and dialogue were just generally better.
>>214988514For me it was the daughter on As Time Goes By
>>214988495So much of this show took place behind just a telephone and it was peak comedy
OH, NICE...
>>214988453This.
>>214987975lol
>>214988271>This was considered a comically obscene outfit in the 1990's
RIP. She just recently caught up with an old co-star
>>214988442yeah the other one also played Edna in Emmerdale
>>214987784FJannies do the right thing and sticky. The woman was iconic
>>214988271Whatever happened to the great British sitcom slapper supporting character?
I never finished Hetty Wainthropp Investigates but I'll have to. I love seeing unadulterated depictions of England in the '90s, makes me nostalgic for some reason.
This genuinely needs a sticky. The mods are being very disrespectful to her by not having a sticky. She was an icon.
>>214988392The show was over 30 years ago and the main cast were already in their late 50s, early 60s back then. Now that I think of it's one of few shows where there are no young people in main roles
Staying at grandmas house for the weekend, we got to a doctor's appointment in the morning and it's raining. Get home in the afternoon and we watch this together.
>>214988798Well, both of those examples are in shows written by the same guy, Roy Clarke. What others can you think of?
RIP Hyacinth
>>214987975
>>214988874Lilo Lil
>>214988713kek. I've seen the women in my office come into work wearing more revealing outfits these days.
>>214988728Fuck man. I've seen people half her age who look more aged. I hope I appear that good in my 90s.
>>214987975...son of a bitch
>>214987975Not now Carlos.
>>214987784RIP old lady britbong. found her pretty funny even as a teen, that's when you know it's a quality show, when it appeals to all demographics.
there's gonna be no sticky because mods are chuds and they're at war with uk
Where do I fill out the sticky request form
>>214988352The Summer of 92
>>214988058It's pronounced BOUQUET!
>>214987784RIPThis remains one of the most watched british shows around the world, even more so than Mr Bean
>>214987881Fat don't crack
>>214987784What the fuck I just looked her up yesterday wondering if she was still alive. Hey don't blame me I was like woah 96, I hope she makes it to 100.
>original milf
>>214989219One good thing about the 90s is that everybody drove the exact same shitheap car. It didn't matter. Cars are a means of conveyance, nothing more. We have forgotten this now.
>>214988271Based and blimey-pilled
>you will never be Emmet, struggling to hide your erection every time Hyacinth bursts in unannounced or whenever she wants to perform a "duet"Feels not so good my bredren
The Bucket woman?
>>214989374So called because you need a bucket for how much cum she was known to extract. Her candlelit milking sessions were legendary. I heard one guy went insane and went into convulsions after 11 orgasms, they had to cart him off in an ambulance.
She was a lookerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwPn5vLA6o
>>214987784literally my mum: the characterrip hyacinth you crazy bitch and rip mum as of 2021
>>214987784RIP Dame Patricia Routledge. Yo, transsexual janitors. Your tits are fake, and so is your “job” as a fat, out of shape, gelatinous blob behind a computer pumping himself full of exogenous estrogen supplements so you can cosplay as a woman, but you do have some utility. In this case STICKY the fucking post. I know her tits we’re real, and you hate her for being what you never, ever will be, but you could at least convince me you aren’t just some misogynist who likes to play dress up while in truth really hating women by stickying the post.
>>214987784F, what an absolute legend
>>214987784F&sticky
>>214987784a truly great british sitcom. My dad especially loved it, because my mothers parents were insufferable wannabe wasps and were just like Hyacinth, except not funny.>>214989572based>>214987975kek >>214988038it was fairly well known for anyone who wasn't using free-to-air tv during their youth, parents with Foxtel in australia all watched it. I imagine i've seen every episode by accident mostly.
>>214987784Rip in peaces.Hope her sister with enough room for a pony speaks at the funeral
>still no sticky/tv/ is cooked
RIP, good lady.>>214987881>>214989183Powerful words.
was there a sticky for Claudia Cardinale?
>>214989947I don't think so. Honestly I doubt many anons would have even engaged if there was given the lack of response to the recent Terrence Stamp and Robert Redford stickies.
F.Disgusting there's no sticky. Simple as.
FI have many good memories watching KUA with my mom
>>214988306>Attack my dripping slot with your bounteous bollockpipeDid Chris Morris write this?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKTviQNM6KAWeirdly I was looking up videos of her singing the other week. She had a good set of lungs
>>214987871>>214987913>>214988306>>214989414kill you're self
>>214988514going strong
>>214990357That's not from a movie, that's her going shopping in her mobility scooter.
>>214988798For me, it's Dorien.British telly gave me a lifelong thirst for milfs that can never be quenched.
>>214990302INTRODUCE ME TO GLADSTONE!SHIT YOUR LEG OFF!
>>214987863
>>214987784Oh no! Thats actually sad>Lady of the house speaking!
>>214987784Slept her way to the top.
>>214987824>star of 35 year old british sitcomit's an american website, no-one's going to give a shit sadly
> Find her grave stone> Lay a bucket of flowers.
>>214988080what's the word for when you more forcefully than usual expel air from your nosethe gentle not laugh kind not a sneeze
Pedestrianbros....who will watch over us now?
>>214990451More feeble grandad!Suck my twin.
>>214990514lay two
>>214990501KUA had traction stateside. I remember my best friend Nick Mullen talking about it on Cumtown.
>>214990501She was in a ton of dramas and plays such as Alan Bennet's talking heads, not just KUA and Hetty.
>>214990571She was in an episode of Steptoe and Son. Young Hyacinth looks exactly as you'd expect, and she wasn't very good sadly, but overacting was her shtick, so I'm guessing she was hired to do her thing.https://youtu.be/f1f7bjvCIRM?si=n01y8EdholeMPQK4&t=1104
>>214987975Kek
>>214990357>that look at the cameraShe had no idea what was going on, oof.
>>214989572well said anon fookin based
>>214988038I do believe it ranks among one of the biggest shows BBC did. They weren't happy when Routledge said she didn't want to do the show anymore, as she felt it had been milked as far it could have.
>>214987784She kicked the boo-kay.
>>214990705There was something very comfy about the formulaic repetitive nature of it. It was just the same scenarios rewritten a lot of the time.Roy Clarke was good at that. Open All Hours was his best, I thought. Original run with Ronnie Barker, obviously.
>>214990779You did alright, anon. You did alright.
>>214990949>Roy ClarkeI just checked he still alive, 95 yrs young
>>214987784RIPHilarious woman
>>214988058*hits /tv/ to refresh*
>>214990318You like Hyacinth's slimy, gurgling pissflaps?
>>214987784she was just a fuckin kid
>>214991254Good for him. Hope he's well.
Richard, you know I love my family, but that doesn't mean I must acknowledge them in broad daylight.
They show it on PBS every saturday night in the states along with some other british comedy that rotates out every few months, but KUA has been a staple for more than a decade at this point.
Boy are you guys looking through some 30 year old rose-tinted glasses. This show never made me laugh once and I watched it with dear old gran same as everyone else. Same as Last of the Summer Wine. The lightest of light entertainment. If Keeping Up Appearances were hospital food it was be boiled, peeled potatoes. Tepid, bland and unlikely to cause cardiac arrest in extremely frail patients. It is the Christmas cracker joke of British entertainment. I challenge you to post a YT clip of a genuinely funny moment (that doesn't involve Onslow farting).But anyway RIP that woman, got nothing against her.
>>214987975Top kekRIP Mrs Bouquet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQQueMPxMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNEEfQKfwkRIP
214991351How utterly low class. If my Sheridan were here he would be appalled.
>>214991351You're out of your mind. I'm american and I watch it on PBS every saturday and laugh my ass off. Hyacinth is a direct clone of the old british ladies my mom used to hang out with in her Brits in America club.
>>214991348I am always amazed how many non-brits watched this show and can quote a few lines from it.
>>214991426On more than one occasion I've rewatched an episode here or there as an adult, trying to see the appeal. I fail every time.
RIP>>214991351you're just retarded
>>214991416>"How can I meet a lot of people in a short time?", well you could get caught shoplifting.
>>214991515What do you want, a fuckin' medal? It's a thread for her death, pay respects or move on.
Sheridan will be devastated.F
>>21499155I wanna how this utterly bland and inoffensive tea-with-granny TV show is so beloved.
Why does no one ever question WHY Richard is married to her?
>>214991613Because it's obvious that pussy doesn't quit.
That feeling knowing you will now never attend one of Hyacinth's candlelight suppers.
>>214991351
>That episode where they use Onslow's time machine to go back to King Arthur's Castle to invite him to a candle light supper
>>214991673My bros, we should all post a pic of our din dns with a lit candle, as a show of repect. RIP
>>214991689Damn, he actually pulls that off. Dicky has no business looking that badass.
>>214991673For me it would be a outdoor, indoor barbecue.
>>214988601Ya got that right.
>>214988515i grew up watching all this sort of thing (born in the 90s to boomers) and i was diagnosed adhd
F
>>214987784Not only this makes me sad, but the lack of sticky is also immensely disappointing.
>>214987784RIP Mrs BucketGonna make a call on my hwite slimline telephone in your honour.
Meanwhile, at the pearly gates:
>>214991429Aussie here or developed a cult following well into the 00s
what episode did she die in
>>214991429According to wikipedia it's the most exported BBC sitcom ever.
MODS STICKY THIS
>>214991429Are you being served was played like crazy in the 90s in the us along with AbFab both of which are comedy staples in my house
>no sticky
>>214987824the trannies that janny this shithole don't know about ACTUAL kino. make no mistake, though. when hunter shcaffer finally necks himself, there will be a MONTH LONG sticky for him. wanna make a bet?
>>214987784Ah, shit. I remember watching that show with my parents as a kid. My mom has since passed away too. Bummer.
>>214988428>Brongoloid bred like an animal by an Aussie to create youBOGANED
>>214987824It's not stick-ee, it's stick-ay.
>>214988271PHWOAR
>>214992865Yeah and that thread will be like the end of return of the jedi for 90% of this board
>>214992923/mu/ had a ONE DAY sticky for Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys (actual musical genius and voice of a generation). when some no-name tranny avante garde faggot killed himself (Genesis P-orrige) he got a THREE DAY STICKY. not even meme'ing.
>>214992259
>>214987784I DONT BELIEVE IT
>>214993004HABEEB IT
>>214993026JAFFACAKE HOME
>>214991573I'd shove my stamp through her box
>>214993179
What was her fucking problem? Why couldn't she just let Richard watch the telly and stay out of everyone's business?
What do high class people like Hyacinth or the Queen think about while doing a shit? I usually just zone out and imagine myself in a Subnautica base or on board a mining spacecraft. idk maybe I'm weird
>>214988296Stephanie Cole "played old" for years, a bit like Clive Dunn. Now she is actually old she looks completely different than the old characters she played.>>214988514Its Elana Miranova that worries me.>Dr Floyd, I am also officer of Russian airforceShe is looking old now, after somehow being fit as fuck for 75 years. "The wall" must have been asleep.
>>214993250I guess we'll never know. Since it's not polite conversation, they'll never tell us. It's like wondering what a person thinks about while they're falling to their death. Can't exactly ask them. It shall forever remain a mystery.
No sticky because the mods are salty that they never got an invite to a candlelit supper
These were my favorite things she did, although the Alan Bennett monologues were more acclaimed.https://youtu.be/bSYZSFiLKJY
>>214993324>It's like wondering what a person thinks about while they're falling to their death."AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"?
>>214987975F and kek
>>214987784RIP, Queen.>>214987975Kek'd.>>214988515Children having short attention span is a myth. It's hard to force a child to do something they don't want to do as they lack self-discipline, but they can find joy in the most monotonous experiences imagineable. I'm usually the one bored out of my mind when playing with my nephews due to how repetitive it gets, but hey, they like it. Also, notably, it's not the children that complain about stuff like legendary DBZ padding whereas adults go "wtf they've just been staring at each other for 5 minutes!".
Are mods insane how is there no sticky is it national dilate day or something?
Hey so how come she wasn't part of the same clique as Judi Dench or Maggie Smith?
>>214991613There are no "whys" in love.
Who?
>>214993670She probably shagged their boyfriends or something
>>214991684That one episode where Richard has enough of her shit and puts his foot down and tells her to shut up and to get in the car.It was worth every single second, even as a child it was cathartic.
>>214993776>boyfriendsYou've never heard the rumours?
>>214992822I fucking hated AbFab, my mother would love that show and I'd be forced to watch it. I just hated it so fucking much.
Vax status?
>>214993670She kind of was, she was a member of the RSC. Generally considered very technically talented as an actress and could basically do anything even if she is remembered for some broad comedy roles today (e.g., she was winning prizes on Broadway in the 60s just as a sideline).>>214993776Its "or something". Lets just say she did have friends in high places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chvYMxi2OII>watch it, dickie
>>214993867What is Abfab?
>No, this is not /v/ - Video Games, and no you cannot have a thread about Balding Gate! Now, if you will excuse me, I am expecting an important thread from a prestigious film director on my white slimline telephone with auto redial, so please click on the correct board, good day! And it's Toevay!
>>214993947Sitcom about Upper Middle Class whores who are in the fashion industry and latch on to every 'Current thing' to stay relevant. One is also an alcoholic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXDMXvD_xU
>>214992259>>214992962kek
MERCEDES
>>214987784British aren't allowed to post on this site
>>214993982lel
George Roper is next bookmark this
RIP, what a legend she was
>>214992956Ozzy only had a 1 day sticky and I was actually having an interesting conversation in there before it archivedFuck /mu/
>>214987975She would appreciate this joke probably.
>>214992956And the tranny sophie who died of suicide and who was buried under his real name died had a sticky and every day he gets another one.
>>214987913good lord
>>214990570>I remember my best friend Nick Mullen talking about it on Cumtown.Which episode?
>>214987784who is she again
>>214988514I'm so glad I got to see her get ELF'd before she passes.
>>214993982>Television & Film, the jannie of the board speaking!>No, you cannot make a thread promoting mixing races and migration. This is a highly respectable board with a whiteline Yotsuba B theme, I don't care if you are posting from Tel Aviv.>What do you mean it's already at bump limit?
>>214995014read it in her voice
>>214993982>Yes, we're visiting my brother CIA, he's the one with a plane, a flightplan and room for a big guy
I'd always watch KUA before Red Green came on PBS back in the day. RIP.
RIP Hyacinth BOOKAY *Bucket*
>>214992865>kinonot an adjective you fucking mong
did anyone watch that awful reboot series?
>>214988798They all have great legs for some reason, bong genes are weird.
>>214996740Is that the prequel you are talking about? If so, no.
>>214988306
>>214987975I was gonna make the same joke, good lad.F for Mrs. Bouquet
>>214988495Kek sheridan was such a fagDid we ever see him?
>>214988798He was just teaching that young lady how to ride a bicycle
>>214996986Yes, it was awful.
>>214987784it's Bouquethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQOwakB7Z0<3
>No, we are decidedly not Chuck's Su... such vulgarities will not be spoken through our white slimline telephone with auto redial. This is Sneed's Seed and Feed!
>>214988498>>214988296Annette Crosbie is still alive (she's 91)
>>214997395https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKXEM3VcSEAnightmare shit. still. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhVfDiUJhV4
>>214992259>Onslow got there first and put it there
>>214997426:)
>>214997576I've always wondered how non-brits think about blobby
>>214997610Stop Bothering her Richard!
>>214993250They pretend they're straddling the face of a member of the proletariat.
>>214992259>>214992962hyuah huah
>>214997067>Did we ever see him?No. There seems to be a trope in comedy, or things that are not comedies but have comedic elements within them, of having unseen characters that are regularly reference or we see main characters having conversation of the phone with. Mainwaring's wife in Dad's Army, Mr. Humphries mother in Are You Being Served?, Mr Swainey's mother in One Foot in the Grave, Nile's wife in Frasier, Arthur Daley's wife in Minder; Columbo's wife. There is probably a bunch of others.
>>214987784She is ... no longer ... Keeping Up Appearances.She is ... now ... Crypt-Keeping Up Appearances.
>>214997730>Columbo's wifeBut we saw her, it turns out she's Captain Janeway.
>>214997610https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Z24zLbRnkWould you kindly telephone 'exclusive kitchens' for me please?
>>214988306Gross, I ended up reading this in her voice.
noooo, not the anything off the trolley dears lady
>>214987784Frest in peace, Hyacinth.
>tfw I've never had a candlelight supper
Mods are gay as usualRIP
>>214987975Thanks anon. I'll bet She'd have liked that one.
>>214988296I remember seeing Stephanie Cole and Eileen Atkins in Doc Martin like 15 years ago and they looked on death's door then.Surprised they're still both around.
>>214997588checked
>>214991416this is good stuff lmao
>>214995014>>214993982LMAO>>214988306i await some degenerate with a functional AI app to get it to replicate her voice into saying this shit lmao. Not sure i wanna hear it myself though.
>>214993982heh
>>214997067no but we do see Violet and her husband albeit only glimpse from behind.
>>214987784RIP. >>214987975This is why I come this site. Well done!>>214989205I wondered about this myself a couple of weeks ago. Outside of Anon's reunion thread mine appears to be the last post about Patricia Routledge before the news of her death hit the board. It's good to see she's not forgotten here nor in mainstream media despite the years passed.>>214989219>>214988271Many forgot about this but she's a re-cast. Daisy was played by a different actress in S01. Both did the role justice but the original one had a more homely looks with more pronounced wrinkles and whatnot, which was a better fit for the character. It embraced her British working class roots better.
>>214987784I'll not have my fine thread with the handpainted periwinkles bandied about on Page 10 with lower class bait threads.
>>214999874>DaisyFuck, I obviously meant Rose. Here's her as a compensation. Nowhere as pretty as the new one but she has similarly great legs.
>>215000035Isn't that that old hag from Emmerdale
>>215000035>>214999874Funnily enough, the recast was 5 years older despite appearing younger. The girly was pushing 60.
>>214988080
>>214988515The 90s was the last decade that traditional broadcast terrestial television was relevant.
>>214993982>>214995014>It's my sister Janinette! She's the one with /o/, /out/, and room at /an/!
OOH RICHARD I'M BEING ATTACKED HELP ME DEAR, THEY ARE RAVISHING ME. MY COLOSSAL GRANNY KNICKERS WERE TORN OFF TO REVEAL MY SLIMY WIGPIE.RICHARD I HAVE BESHITTED MY DRESS HELP HELP
"Daisy tell Onslo to put a shirt on when I'm on the telephone phone. I can hear him there, expanding"
>>214988038Really? My parents had KuA, Allo Allo and Blackadder recorded but I thought that was just because they'd lived in England for a bit.
>>214999698We can already hear it in her voice, what's the difference?
>>214988515You didn't have the luxury of choice back then so you got to discover a few kinos organically among the ocean of trash on TV
>>214988306>bollockpipe
*hits thread*
>>215000924*BLAM*
>>214987871Wrong wrong wrong. KUA is about the struggle for englands identity and nobility amidst a changing world where their empire has crumbled into a commonwealth and their former glory reduced to a shadow.