By David Walliams, Illustrated by Tony Ross It’s about Prince Alfred, a sickly boy of twelve, who lives in the year 2120. His mum, the Queen, gets taken away in the night by their royal guards, and when young Alfred realises, he embarks on an epic quest to save her, only to be captured as well! When he escapes, he meets his long-lost grandma’s team, called the revolutionaries. They sneak into the House of Commons to indicate it’s time for revolution, but royal guards chase them back to Buckingham Palace where they get stuck in the London Underground. The queen, who also escaped, fires a torpedo to free the others, unwittingly dying in the end. They get back into the crypt, where Alfred’s nanny is waiting. She turns out evil, but Grandma stabs her in the back. Meanwhile, the Lord Protector, the king’s loyal subject, had killed the king, using his blood to try and turn a statue into a real griffin. Only royal blood can turn it back, but as the king’s dead he need’s Alfred’s blood. In the
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