New King Palmers

<p>Set in the late 1990s in the months up to and after the death of Princess Diana <em>New King Palmers</em> is narrated by its principal character Humfrey Joel a close friend of Earl Eliot d'Oc. The earl's ancestry is bound up with the Habsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. D'Oc is a member of the British Privy Council and a close friend of Prince Charles (now King Charles III) and Princess Diana. In the months preceding Diana's death d'Oc commissions a young theatre professional to develop a play whose theme is constitutional issues surrounding the British monarchy.</p>