What would happen if Victoria Frederica were Queen of Spain?

BarcelonaSpoiled, haughty and a party animal. These are three of the characteristics that define the protagonist of Your Majesty, a satire on the Spanish monarchy set in the present day, written by Borja Cobeaga and Diego San José – the couple responsible for the phenomenon Eight Basque surnames– and stars Catalan actress Anna Castillo. The actress plays Princess Pilar, who after years of living her life with all her heart and without too many responsibilities is forced to assume the throne when her father, King Alfonso XIV (Pablo Derqui), ends up involved in a financial scandal. Princess Pilar has a way of going through life that may remind us of Victoria Federica: what would happen if, due to life's circumstances, the daughter of Elena de Borbón ended up reigning over Spain? Your Majesty, which will be available on Prime Video starting this Thursday, gives a rough idea, although the creators have not based it on any real (or real) character in particular.

Moving to the front line means that Princess Pilar, whose intellectual abilities everyone doubts, must follow the path marked out by the Crown, a task in which she will have the support of a secretary played by Ernesto Alterio. He is in charge of polishing, from the shadows, the most controversial aspects of the princess's personality, such as her tendency to threaten the judiciary or insult anyone who contradicts her without problems. He is also the one who ensures that the princess's friends do not seek preferential treatment.

The series starts with a gag that will appeal to the Catalan public. Spain is experiencing the final of the Copa del Rey, which is being played between Barça and Girona, and the princess cannot stand the Catalan fans in the stadium whistling at her and her father. This beginning, in addition to being a rather spectacular way to start the series, serves, as the creators explained at the presentation of the fiction, to make the viewer wonder what a princess can feel when she knows that "that day she will receive a monumental whistle, no matter what she does."

A fiction that does not seek to provoke

Considering the starting point, one might think that Your Majesty wants to be a provocative comedy, but its creators deny it. In the presentation of the fiction they assured that it is a "realistic" series, while Ernesto Alterio assured "that it has a very good balance between being incisive and not being offensive."

Cobeaga and San José assure that they do not expect that Your Majesty does not generate controversy or stir up dust. "Society is much more mature than we think. The biggest mistake a creator can make is to think that the public is not up to the task of what he is going to release. It is much more prepared and advanced than we always think," says Cobeaga.

Your Majesty It is not the only current series that makes fun of the Spanish monarchy. A few days ago Movistar Plus+ premiered The short life, a comedy miniseries that looks back at one of Spain's shortest reigns, that of Louis I, who was on the throne for only seven months due to his premature death from smallpox. Written by Cristóbal Garrido and Adolfo Valor, it is a rather scathing satire of the absurdity that surrounded that ephemeral reign: Louis I's father, Philip V, abdicates because he has literally lost his mind. The former king is not the only discordant element in the court: the king's stepmother only conspires, and the queen, Louise of Orleans, breaks any rule that is put in front of her. The coincidence of these two series on the platforms serves as a diptych of Spain's dysfunctional relationship with the Crown.