No! There has been a long history of poking fun at the Royal Family as any peek at the work of a look at the graphic art of Gillray, Rowlandson and George Cruikshank will demonstrate. While Victorian satirists would never dare to treat their royals or prime ministers with the contempt with which their grandfathers had lampooned the Prince of Wales a mainstay of the Spitting Image series, a British satirical puppet show which ran on the ITV television network from 1984 to 1996, was the British Royal family 'One will survive'
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