Backstairs Billy is a biographical comedy about William Tallon, who worked as the Queen Mother’s chief footman for years following the death of George VI in 1952. Tallon was an enthusiastic gay cottager whom the tabloids suggestively dubbed ‘backstairs Billy’ during the 1970s when attitudes to homosexuality were growing more enlightened.

QOSHE - Gloriously entertaining: Backstairs Billy, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, reviewed - Lloyd Evans
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Gloriously entertaining: Backstairs Billy, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, reviewed

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23.11.2023

Backstairs Billy is a biographical comedy about William Tallon, who worked as........

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