Queen's unexpected favourite TV show named with monarch able to 'recite one-liners'

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Her Majesty the Queen’s personal political views have always been a closely-guarded secret, and some of her other preferences are relatively unknown too.For example, no-one really knows what the monarch’s favourite TV show is.

Until now.Former BBC sports reporter Phil Jones says Her Majesty revealed the name of her favourite programme to him in an interview way back in 2001, but it’s only now that he feels able to share the secret.Phil says kept the conversation to himself for 21 years because someone once told him that journalists shouldn't reveal private anything said privately by the monarch.However, as he prepares to hang up his BBC Radio 2 microphone, he thinks it might be time to let the rest of us in on the secret.Rather than some brainy documentary, or thought-provoking political programme, Phil says that Her Maj likes to relax in front of Emmy-winning sitcom The Kumars at No.42.Hearing the news, star Sanjeev Bhaskar told The Daily Star that he'd been told that Her Majesty liked the show in the past but this is the first confirmation : "It is humbling to think that a show I came up with in my bedroom had such wide appeal."In the olden days I guess I would have become a Duke or something, but today I’ve got to sort out the recycling."Sanjeev says that even though The Queen mentioned the show when he met her, he modestly assumed she'd just been "well briefed" by one of her staff.The Kumars centred around Sanjeev Kumar (played by Unforgotten's Sanjeev Bhaskar), and his dreams of becoming a top chat-show host.He succeeded pretty well, actually, pulling in some top celebrity guests over the years, including Ray Winstone, James Corden and Wolverine star Hugh Jackman.But his interviews are constantly interrupted by his.