Prince William 'loves' The Windsors and gypsy Kate

A royal insider said: "The Duke finds The Windsors absolutely hilarious.

"He loves it. He finds the whole 'Kate is a gypsy' thing particularly funny.

"He watched the whole of the first series and will be tuned in for the second."

The Windsors review

The Windsors (C4), now on its second season, suggests that the Lord Chancellor approves most things these days.

The Harry Enfield-led soap consistently offers a brilliantly wicked imagining of life behind closed palace doors. This week, we learn that Wills didn't actually complete his basic helicopter training ("You know the pressures on a working royal's time! Plus we would never have had that skiing holiday!"). While he tries to get his credentials, Harry's opening a nightclub, staffed entirely by his hapless relatives. Plus, can a good deed win Camilla the popularity she craves?

Ellie White & Celeste Dring on The Windsors

An interview with Ellie White, who plays Princess Beatrice, and her on-screen sister Celeste Dring, who plays Princess Eugenie.

The Windsors are back on our box, welcomely, and still happily unfettered by such restrictive critical considerations as, for instance, taste. The satirical royal soap takes a blunderbuss approach to its humour: precisely how sharp might you have to be to take the rip out of Charles's ineffectuality or Theresa May's bullying incompetence? But the delights arrive with the minor royals: a vicious Pippa, casting gypsy curses, or Beatrice and Eugenie (Celeste Dring and Ellie White), mangling every posh diphthong available into a gargoyled simulacrum of the English language and thus gently, gleefully, reminding us of that old head-scratching question: what are they all, y'know, for?

The Windsors review

Charles boasts about breaking every taboo with Camilla, while Beatrice and Eugenie steal every scene.

Many of the laughs derive from absurdly elongated vowels, but The Windsors is never less than a right royal knees-up. This second series adds the exquisite Vicki Pepperdine to the regular cast as a Mrs Danvers-esque Princess Anne. Meanwhile, Harry is worried that his love for American divorcee, Meghan Markle, will cause an Edward VIII-style family rift. Where does this newfound historical perspective come from? "Yah, I'm watching The Crown on Netflix."

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.

The Windsors returns for a very funny second series

Extraordinarily cheeky and occasionally cruel caper The Windsors makes a welcome return to Channel 4.

The Windsors review

All the subtlety and nuance of a Donald Trump tweet.