Talk:To Play the King

Major
''In fact, John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher during the period the three series were being produced. Major was never seen as the scheming Francis Urquhart character of the series, however.''

Surely Major was, in a bizarre piece of foresight, Thatcher's fictional successor Henry Collingridge? At the start of TPTK, Urquhart tells the viewer something like "Remember the nice man who talked about the classless society? He had to go." Timrollpickering 23:54, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I've removed this whole section anyway - it was too POV for me and I'm a member of the Labour Party! Lstanley1979 (talk) 12:39, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

TV series date
is 1993 according to the article, although the category was 1991! Hugo999 (talk) 02:53, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Abdication
Is it correct in this country (form of government), that a PM can demand and execute the abdication of the monarch? I think not - this is a fiction that dilutes the aotherwise accurate of government's foul tactics. Cisum.ili.dilm (talk) 12:46, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No, neither demand nor execute. FU requested that the King abdicate, and then threatened to destroy the entire monarchy if he didn't. The King chose to abdicate of his own free will (sort of).165.140.231.66 (talk) 00:06, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Contradiction
The beginning of the article claims Urquhart commits suicide at the end of the House of Cards novel. The end of the article claims that at the beginning of the TPTK novel he is leader of the party. From his coffin? 109.156.104.9 (talk) 09:35, 19 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Strangely enough, the second novel is meant to be a sequel to the first TV series, rather than the first novel. I think that Dobbs was rather peeved at how the first one was adapted and wanted to get the last word in with the character.  &mdash; Laura Scudder | talk 17:42, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

2013 Revised Novel
I don't believe this novel revision exists. I own a version with a 2014 copyright and none of the changes referenced here have been made. I've searched high and low and cannot find any 2013 revision available for sale or even registered anywhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.33.235 (talk) 23:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I have a 2015 edition which claims to be revised and does not match the changes mentioned here at all. The matching edition of the first book is heavily changed and does reflect that in the article. I suspect there may be some publishing oddities here. I suspect the name of his wife might be an important indicator of what revision or not the book is - she is Mortima in all three for me but mentioned as Elizabeth (like the TV series) in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.144.72 (talk) 17:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)