The British monarchy's history of scandal, land grabs, and secrecy is the target of Heathcote Williams' polemical poem, narrated here by Alan Cox over archival montage. Williams treats the royal family less as tradition than as a case file, stacking facts most viewers have never heard into a running indictment of the Crown's conduct across centuries. The tone is furious and satirical at once: he compares the family to zoo animals kept for public display and suggests they'd be better off with "a royal Whipsnade," a wider pasture where the public could stop bowing and curtsying to people no different from themselves. Cox's narration carries the verse straight through without interviews or on-screen historians, letting the accumulation of claims do the work rather than any framing device. The film pushes toward an open question about whether the monarchy will still stand decades on, and whether a poem, rather than a ballot, might be what finally turns Britain into a republic.