According to Brian Blessed, Flash Gordon is a cult classic at Buckingham Palace.

Flash Gordon was a peculiarly camp 1980 film which featured the muscular actor Sam J Jones in the title role and a soundtrack from Queen. Although it was, of course, the rock band rather than the monarch, the film still appears to have achieved a devoted following among the courtiers at Buckingham Palace.

Indeed, Brian Blessed, who played the winged Prince Vulcan, now admits that he can’t visit the Palace without one of the boys yelling at him his big line from the film: “Gordon’s alive!”

And I can't think why!