Director: Nicholas Hytner

Writers : Alan Bennett, Alan Bennett

Stars : Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he loses his senses, he becomes both more alive, and more politically marginalized, neither effect desirable to his Lieutenants, who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority, raising the question of who is really in charge.