The Prince

**The Prince** is an adult animated sitcom on *HBO Max*, created by Gary Janetti. The series depicts The Royal Family and focuses mainly on Prince George, who acts like an egotistical, entitled brat. The series premiered on July 29th, 2021.

On February 16th, 2022, it was announced that The Prince had been cancelled, ending the series with 12 episodes, spanning one season.

## Premise

The Prince centers around a biting, satirical look at the life of Prince George of Cambridge, the youngest heir to the British throne, as he navigates the trials and tribulations of being a pampered and privileged royal child to the Royal Family.

## Characters

### Royal Family

* **Prince George** *(played by Gary Janetti)* - Prince George is the main character of the series. He is eldest son of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and third in line of succession to the British throne. He is a very flamboyant and effeminate child, who is very involved with the lives of celebrities, most of which follow him on Instagram, a social media website that he is always on. As a royal child, Prince George is very pompous and narcissistic, believing the world revolves around him, which, to a degree, it sort of does, as his servants are obligated to give him everything he wants. Prince George is thankless and rude to his service, which is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his attitude. Prince George is always quick with a sarcastic quip or snappy comeback in conversations with anybody he talks to and as an elite member of the Royal Family, nobody is allowed to fight back, lest they get punished, making Prince George completely untouchable and invincible to all of life's problems. Secretly, all of his servants despise him, albeit no more than the rest of his family. However, there is one butler who thoroughly likes Prince George and doesn't harbor any negativity toward him, no matter how much disrespect he takes from him. This is his own personal butler, Owen, who Prince George actually kind of likes, as seen by the way he treats him with slightly less disrespect than everyone else and has some genuinely friendly interactions with. Owen showers Prince George with countless compliments even if they aren't true, which tells George exactly what he wants to hear and further inflates his already monumental ego.
* **Queen Elizabeth II** *(played by Frances Latour)* - The queenly and royal leader of Great Britain and current holder of the British throne. She is a very crass and low-brow woman, who has a very profane vocabulary and constantly resorts to insults toward everybody in her sight, no matter who they may be. Despite being the leader of the country, Queen Elizabeth doesn't give a shit about anything that's going on and spends all of her time, sitting on her ass and bossing around her servants and barking out demands, mainly in regards to her favorite royal pastry, the flummery tart, which gives her nasty gas. Elizabeth is very rude to her own family, especially her daughter-in-law, Camilla Shand, who she has a completely unjustified burning hatred for and blames her many farts on. As a woman as old as herself, Queen Elizabeth often considers stepping down from the throne and bestowing the crown unto her royal heir, Prince Charles but the only thing standing in the way of this is the fact that this will in turn make Camilla the new queen, which would be her worst nightmare come true.
* **Prince Philip** *(played by Dan Stevens)* - The extremely old and senile ruling prince of Great Britain, duke of Edinburgh, and husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As a 99-year-old man, Prince Philip is practically a walking corpse at this point, minus the walking. Philip mostly just sits around with his face hanging out, staring off blankly into space, and rarely contributing anything to the conversation other than random screams and moans and the occasional blurting out of a random non-sequitur. This doesn't stop him from being a dick, as he'll usually support his queen, when it comes to insulting and bullying the servants, subjects, and Camilla. His hobbies include drooling, defecating, falling face flat on the floor, and watching *The Big Bang Theory*, a TV show that he's obsessed with.
* **Prince Charles** *(played by Dan Stevens)* - The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the prince of Wales, and the next in line for the throne. Charles is, by fat, the nicest member of the family and one of the few family members not to abuse the household staff. Rather, he is a very kind-hearted and sympathetic to everyone around them no matter how "unimportant" they may be. Because of this, he's made himself one of the primary targets for bullying from his mother, who sees him as a complete and total pussy. Prince Charles' innermost desire, so dear to his heart is to become the king of Great Britain. However, since his mom keeps living for so long, he has to keep on waiting for the glorious day he finally achieves his illustrious and long-awaited kingship.
* **Camilla Shand** *(played by N/A)* - The second wife of Prince Charles, following the death of Princess Diana, the Duchess of Cornwall, and by proxy, the next in line for the British royal throne. She is a very quiet woman who never talks at all, mostly out of worry that she'll say something stupid, worthy of being shot down by the queen. Despite her perpetual silence, she is still the verbal punching bag of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, being chastised and denounced for everything she does, even if it's just existing. She is yet another one of the only good-hearted members of the family, due to her submissive behavior and she never exhibits any slight toward anyone, even those who are rude to her. A running gag is for her to act like a horse and eat sugar cubes, when people feed them to her.
* **Prince William** *(played by Iwan Rheon)* - The second-born son and third-born child overall to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Cambridge, husband to Catherine Middleton, and father of Prince George. He is deeply dissatisfied with his marriage to Catherine and always trades insults with her, longing for the day they finalize their upcoming divorce. Prince William is overall, pretty dissatisfied with everything. He doesn't care about anything and is a very dull and apathetic person, who just doesn't give a shit about life as a whole.
* **Catherine Middleton** *(played by Lucy Punch)* - The wife of Prince William, Duchess of Cambridge, and mother of Prince George. Like her apathetic husband, Catherine is unhappy with her marriage and her life as a royal, overall. She plans on getting divorced with William so that she can break away from the monotony of this dastardly royal family and finally go back to living the life of a regular human being. Until then, she's to sit around, getting into burn battles with her hell-hated husband and pissing her feelings away with red wine. She is also a very uninvolved mother, who rarely acknowledges the existence of her three kids, as she leaves all of the parenting to the royal service. On the off chance she does talk to her kids, they get bewildered and wonder why that strange woman is talking to them.
* **Prince Harry** *(played by Orlando Bloom)* -
* **Meghan Markle** *(played by Condola Rashad)* -
* **Princess Charlotte** *(played by Sophie Turner)* -
* **Prince Louis** *(played by Paul Anderson)* -

### Royal Servants

* **Owen** *(played by Alan Cumming)* -
* **Edmund** *(played by TBA)* -
* **Douglas** *(played by Samuel Barnett)* -
* **Greg** *(played by TBA)* -
* **Teddy** *(played by Sacha Dhawan)* -
* **Belinda** *(played by TBA)* -
* **Kevin** *(played by Matty McCabe)* -

### Others

* **Sebastian** *(played by Samuel Barnett)* -
* **Dinesh** *(played by Sacha Dhawan)* -
* **Ms. Kathy** *(played by TBA)* -
* **Lisa Rinna** *(played by herself)* -

## Production

### Development

The main idea for The Prince was inspired by Janetti’s popular Instagram account, which has nearly one-million followers and has garnered international media attention for poking fun at the British Royals (and the relentless media coverage of them) through the eyes of a young Prince George, the eldest child of Prince William and Princess Kate and a future king.

According to Deadline, The finalized project was taken out of schedule by 20th Century Fox Television, drawing interest from multiple places and landing at HBO Max after the streamer stepped up with a straight-to-series order. It was developed before the most recent major developments and will likely be adjusted to reflect “Megxit” as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have distanced themselves from the royal family. Prince Philip had died during production of the series in April 2021.

## Trivia

* The series was originally set to premiere on May 9th, 2021, but it was delayed in lieu of the death of the real-life Prince Phillip on April 9th, 2021. The series would officially premiere on July 29th, 2021.

## Gallery

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