Either you spent the run-up to the royal wedding pulsating with excitement, or, like me, trying to choke yourself with a commemorative tea towel to avoid having to watch any more coverage. In this sour, curmudgeonly spirit, I was grateful for playful, dissenting voices, and The Windsors duly obliged with their hour-long Royal Wedding Special, which included Harry (p]Richard Goulding]) letting down "top bird" Meghan (Kathryn Drysdale) by embarking on a stag night that resulted in him dressing up in an SS uniform (ahem, again), and Kate (Louise Ford) insisting that William (Hugh Skinner/p) get a vasectomy.

The Windsors Royal Wedding Special review

Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie's ruthless comedy is a reminder that you can get away with a lot as long as you are funny.

The Windsors wedding special preview

I am on set at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, which is being used as a stand-in for a number of regal residences. The crew are filming the wedding reception in the banqueting hall. The tables are buckling under the weight of gigantic chickens. There are enough bottles of champagne to satisfy Harry's thirstiest pals, while from the walls, stern, ermine-clad aristocrats look on disapprovingly.

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Preview - The Windsors

The comedy spoofing the lives of the Royal Family in the style of an American soap opera returns for a second series.

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My only qualm is this: I'm not sure the premise is sustainable for an entire series. There's only so many times you can make jokes about Wills being dim, Kate being descended from gypsies, and Harry watching The Crown to educate himself about his ancestors. Sooner or later, I suspect, the gags will wear as thin as the hair on poor Wills' head.

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Channel 4 royal family satire The Windsors is introducing a new character to the second series: Prince Harry's girlfriend Meghan Markle. Harry's new(ish) American actress love interest will be played by Kathryn Drysdale when The Windsors returns for a second run later this year.

In this cheap and cheerful sitcom, Pauline (Selina Griffiths) is all set to catch an early plane home when a freak storm hits the town, cancelling her flight and sending her scurrying back to the bottle. Natalie (Kathryn Drysdale), meanwhile, continues to manage the attentions of Mateo and Liam.

With brassy characters, outlandish storylines and a sun-drenched setting, it's easy to see why Derren Litten's comedy drama has become so popular. It's back for a fourth series, although it's starting to lose its sparkle. New holidaymakers include portly hairdresser Kenneth (Tony Maudsley) and party girls Sam and Natalie (Shelley Longworth and Kathryn Drysdale). Meanwhile Solana stalwarts the Garveys (Steve Pemberton and Siobhan Finneran) return to track down a beleaguered Madge (Shelia Reid).