ALAN BENNETT - BENNETT: 'THE QUEEN IS HILARIOUS'

British playwright ALAN BENNETT adored writing his 1988 play A QUESTION OF ATTRIBUTION, because it gave him a chance to show the funny side of British monarch THE QUEEN The work, which was screened on TV, featured PRUNELLA SCALES as the royal, and he had a ball writing "wisecracks" for the regal character. He tells London's Time Out magazine, "Once you cotton onto her attitude I found it enormous fun to write her scenes. "She's supposed to have said, 'Oh it's not like me, I don't make wisecracks,' but she does make wisecracks, she does. "When Pru Scales was being given the CBE and the Queen was putting the ribbon round her neck, she said, 'I suppose you think you ought to be doing this."'