Tea

**Tea** is the second episode of The Prince.

## Synopsis

After firing the previous boss for clearing his throat, Queen Elizabeth II promotes Douglas to the head of tea service.

## Plot

The butlers all work their butts off to prepare a tea service for the Royal Family. When they finally present the meal to the family, Queen Elizabeth II is humbly contended with what she sees and almost goes into a fury over not getting her flummery tart before noticing it hidden behind some other foods. Prince George feeds Camilla a sugar cube as though she were a horse. Queen Elizabeth demands Douglas to force feed Prince Philip some tea, since he's being difficult. Everything seems to be going just fine until the head of tea service clears his throat. Out of annoyance, the queen fires him. After he gets fired, the queen promotes Douglas to head of tea service to replace him, much to the latter's delight.

Douglas goes back to his room with his husband, Greg and tells him the good news. Greg thinks that with the extra money from his new job, they might be able to afford a surrogate mother and have a child. Douglas worries if he's going to be any good at his job but Greg assures him he'll be stellar, just so long as he makes sure to give the queen her flummery tart.

Meghan goes off to audition for a possibly recurring role on *Last Man Standing* and when she leaves, she tells Prince Harry to look after Archie and also pick up some milk, while she's out.

On his first day at his new job, Douglas takes tea service very seriously and even stands up on a soap box to make an impassioned speech to his fellow butlers. His first order of business is to demand Edmund to bring forth the flummery tarts. Edmund goes down to the dungeon to retrieve some flummery tarts from the creepy freaks, as per use.

Douglas bring the flummery tart to the queen and serves it to her, just as always. However, this time, the queen spits it out in disgust immediately after tasting it and starts voicing her utmost displeasure for the treat. Douglas is confused, as this had been her favorite treat for 90 years but the queen announces that she has officially gotten sick of it. Queen Elizabeth II threatens Douglas that if he ever serves her a flummery tart again, she will be serving tea out of his severed head. Douglas apologizes and assures her such a dastardly mistake will never occur again, as he takes his flummery tarts on his way. After Douglas leaves, Queen Elizabeth says that Douglas is doing a bang-on up as the new head of tea service.

Prince Harry takes Archie around town, in search of milk. He asks random people on the street for milk and they all curse at him for being such a weirdo. He finally makes it to a grocery store, where he discovers the dairy section and is amazed at the massive corridor of refrigerators, where tons of people walk around and look for milk. He pays for his milk at the cash register, where he gives the cashier his ring as money.

Douglas announces to the butlers that they no longer need to serve flummery tarts since the queen went off, the last time he tried to serve them. Edmund questions what they should do about the things in the basement and Douglas says that somebody should really "take care" of them.

Meghan *FaceTimes* with Catherine and all Cathy does is insult her. Prince Harry comes home and tells Meghan about his magical experience with shopping for milk. He is very proud to have bought milk but assumes that he makes money off of selling it.

Edmund takes Teddy to the basement for the final time, where they exterminate the gross pink mole-creatures in the basement like mice. Edmind opens fire on them with a flamethrower and massacres their people like it's nothing and then the duo leave. After they leave, one of the creatures comes by and sees the horrifying sight of the charred corpses of all of his people.

Prince George sits in his room, where Owen gives him the news about his schedule, announcing that he has a playdate later that week and George gets right down to business on planning. He makes very sure that no matter what, Princess Charlotte is not to be invited.

Meanwhile, outside, the sole surviving pink monster from the dungeon escapes from Buckingham Palace entirely and runs off into the sunset.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Prince George
* Queen Elizabeth II
* Prince Philip
* Prince Charles
* Camilla Shand
* Prince William
* Catherine Middleton
* Prince Harry
* Meghan Markle
* Douglas
* Greg
* Edmund
* Monsters
* Kevin

### Minor Roles

* Princess Charlotte
* Prince Louis
* Archie Mountbatten-Windsor
* Owen
* Teddy

## Trivia

* Camilla is treated like a horse, eating sugar cubes out of people's hands.
* Douglas gets promoted to the head of tea service.
* Douglas and Greg are a married couple who are planning on having a child.
* Douglas' last name is "Mitchellthorpe".
* Queen Elizabeth II suddenly starts hating flummery tarts, despite them being her favorite treat for 90 years.
	+ Due to flummery tarts not being a worthless treat, Edmund takes it upon himself to exterminate the monsters in the dungeon by incinerating them all with a flamethrower.

### Cultural References

* Queen Elizabeth II bids her butler adieu by saying "Bye, Felicia", to quote a dead meme that originated from the 1995 comedy film, "Friday".
* Prince George plans to make his upcoming playdate comparable to that of Truman Capote's Black & White Ball of 1966.