A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry …
What had happened was that some radio men had gone along to the castle to record the king’s Christmas message—and the king wasn’t there. Frantic search parties set out at once. People suddenly realized that without the king, ships would go unlaunched, civic buildings unopened, and the only person they could put on their stamps was the Prime Minister.*
- Who was not very impressive.