Summer Wine is vintage royal viewing

The BBC needs all the friends it can get right now. So it was just a shame that after the corporation announced it was axing its long-running sitcom The Last of the Summer Wine, who turns out to be a big fan of the show? Only the bloomin' Queen, that's who. The sitcom's star, Peter Sallis, revealed Her Maj's penchant for the show after receiving his OBE at Buckingham Palace. "I was tickled pink. The Queen has something to say to everyone," Sallis told the new issue of Radio Times. "And as she was sticking the medal on me, she said, 'I love Last Of The Summer Wine. And Waiting For Godot.' That was all she said. But it was enough, you know. I've been lucky, very lucky." No word on whether she also has it on series link on her personal video recorder.