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The Blood of the Bambergs
''The Blood of the Bambergs'' (1962) is a short two-act play by John Osborne, published in his book "Plays for England". It was designed to be shown in a double-bill with another short play, ''Under Plain Cover''. ''The Blood of the Bambergs'' is a satirical commentary on royal weddings, in a variation on the story of ''The Prisoner of Zenda''.
==Background==
The play was inspired by the popular celebrations surrounding the marriage of Princess Margaret to Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Osborne's wife, the journalist Penelope Gilliatt, provided him with 'backstage gossip' about the arrangement of the events, which Osborne found absurd.〔Heilpern, John, ''John Osborne: A Patriot for Us'', 2007, Random House, pp.287.〕 Satire of the monarchy was still not acceptable on the English stage. Nevertheless, the Lord Chamberlain's office, which could effectively censor plays by denying them a license to perform, felt unable to reject the play. The "devilish cleverness of this horrid play", wrote the author of a the office's report, is that "If a licence is refused, this can at once be presented as a ridiculous banning of the old ''Prisoner of Zenda'' story sixty years later".〔
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