Nothing Like a Dame
Helen Mirren takes on The Queen
Mirren’s sly, subtle portrait put me in mind of Prunella Scales’ wonderful HMQ in John Schlesinger’s excellent 1992 telefilm A Question of Attribution, based on Alan Bennett’s play about the queen’s relationship with her art adviser (and, on the side, Soviet spy), Sir Anthony Blunt. I doubt whether Her Royal Majesty would take umbrage at either portrait, but Mirren, endearingly protective, remains nervous. A copy of The Queen has been shipped to Buckingham Palace, but Mirren has no idea whether the royals will actually sit down and watch it. “Robert Lacey, a wonderful writer about the monarchy whose book I used substantially in my research, was asked the same question,” she says, and smiles wickedly. “And he said, ‘I think she would say, “Well, that could have been worse. I think it’s time for a gin and tonic.”?’?”
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