Popular Culture
A Princess was owned by Terry and June Medford, in the BBC sitcom of the same name. Similarly Bobby and Sheila Grant drove a blue Princess in Brookside, until the opening sequence was remodelled in the 1990s, their car could be seen throughout the opening credits and was visible on the title-card.
A bronze metallic coloured (BMC/BL colour code: BLVC 370) Princess was used by KGB agents in the TV series The Professionals. The episode in question was titled "Stopover" and it was episode 3 of the third series, first broadcast on 10 November 1979.
The character "Lomper" (Steve Huison) attempts suicide in a Princess in the film The Full Monty.
More recently, fictional character Dirk Gently owns a Princess, which played an important role in the 2010 television adaptation of Douglas Adams' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Top Gear tested the Princess against the Dolomite Sprint and a Rover SD1, declaring it to be the best car British Leyland made (from the 3 cars selected) after it had performed the best in in some very unconventional tests. Also on Top Gear the car was shown to Jay Kay for his comments on the vehicle, he selected only a minor part of the trim as having any design merit and demonstrated the poor design of the engine bay by standing in the space left next to the engine.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
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