A raucous and raunchy take on the lives of the Royal Family, the first series of THE WINDSORS finds Prince Wills (W1A's Hugh Skinner) desiring to do something meaningful as an air ambulance pilot instead of being a meaningless figurehead (seeking advice from the ghosts of kings past... along with Oliver Cromwell), wife Kate (Louise Ford) seeking to shed her gypsy past of tarmacking driveways and embrace her duties as a future queen, illiterate party boy Harry (Richard Goulding, ME BEFORE YOU) aimless as ever, scheming Pippa (Morgana Robinson, HOUSE OF FOOLS) hoping to land a prince or a hedge fund manager to show up her sister, Fergie (Katy Wix, NOT GOING OUT) pushing her "Right Royal Juicer" and publishing her third revealing memoir in five years, daughters Eugenie (Celeste Dring) and Beatrice (Ellie White) looking to make it big with the least amount of work, Prince Edward (Matthew Cottle, GET WELL SOON) still wanting to be taken seriously after the fall of his disastrous media empire, and Prince Andrew (Tim Wallers, ROCKNROLLA) gleefully profiteering off of war and laundering money. Jealous of Wills and Kate's popularity and the possibility that succession to the throne will skip a generation, Camilla (Haydn Gwynne, DROP THE DEAD DONKEY) plots to embarrass her stepdaughter while doddering Prince Charles (comedian Harry Enfield) hopelessly out of touch and shockingly inappropriate on the world stage. Six episodes follow the Royals through various crises involving romantic entanglements (with Harry often distracted by a "nice arse" while pining for Pippa), illegitimate children, matters of state, murder, and pitting father against son in a vote to abolish the monarchy. At time hysterically funny, one cannot help but think it might have been even more consistently humorous had the characterizations not been ramped up all the way from the very start, but there are some fine performances from Gwynne's Lady Macbeth-like schemer, Goulding's dolt, the always funny Cottle, Robinson's gold-digging slag ("You had me at 'I'm just a prince'"), along with the duo of Dring and White whose princesses seem almost indistinguishable from the real thing going by photographs. Series one also includes a Christmas special which riffs on theme from REBECCA (much as the first episode had with its costume party faux pas) and GONE WITH THE WIND as Camilla and a very Mrs. Danvers-esque Princess Anne (Vicki Pepperdine) torment Kate as she takes on the Christmas festivities at the foreboding Sandringham House and Wills discovers a mad relative locked in the tower.