I saw the slight squeeze of his sisters hand- it was wonderful- god dam- won't forget it- one very rare moment of television I will not forget.

peter, reading,

Mr. Gill: To profess that you are not fond of us, Greeks, of our historic past – in your idiosyncratic way of seeing it – and of modern Athens is no problem to me. After all you dislike the very best of your own people. But to assert that you, the English, “had never thought that much about them”, the Greeks, is either hypocritical or altogether illogical.

Just re-read your critique. You’ll find that you've used dozens of Greek terms to describe things and articulate an opinion. Tragedy, monarchy, heresy, museum, characters, nostalgically, criticism, pathos, democracy, Europe, comedy, drama, theatre are just a few. If you so heavily depend on the Greek language for assistance in the way you write and communicate your ideas, you are not in a good position not to think much about us. Think again!

Nikos Dimitriadis, Patra, Greece

So at the end of the day the truth comes out, the Queen alleged tantrum was filmed entirely out of context with regards what happened, the effect was acceived by manipulating the sequence of the film in the cutting room.

Another own goal achieved by the so called "Producer"

Pity is that the heads that will roll will not be done so on reality t.v. in full living colour.

Kev, Deva Hunedoara, Transylvania Romania

What a miserable lot you complainants are, and lacking in imagination!

HMQ is 81 and is a tiny person, not a weightlifter. How many working grannies are there in Britain carrying her heavy load?

Have you any idea what the weight of those ceremonial garments, plus tiara actually weigh or how hot they must be to wear? I thought not. How many of us could look so dignified in the same clothing or similar when we are 81?

How would we feel after spending ages preparing for a photographic session to have the photographer suggest she removes part of the ensemble thus making it an unbalanced composition?

Christine, London, UK

Where on earth has AA Gill eaten the deep fried mars bar and Magnum? I, all of my family and almost everyone I know live in Scotland (in various locations - East West north etc) and no one has ever seen these items for sale. Was this a cheap gibe for comic effect? I challenge him to tell me 1. What these treats taste like and 2. where to buy them.

There are multitudes of fabulous places to eat in Scotland which do not involve forking out a fotnights wages. I feel like 'disgusted from Glasgow' but to denegrate a whole nations pallets in one fell swoop feels deeply unjust. So there, I'm off to have some battered black pudding

April Niven, Glasgow, Scotland

You're absolutely correct. The Queen WAS behaving like a tiresome starlet. However, that's aging, that's life. My mother is the same age as HM and she gets unaccountably grumpy over trivial details as well. With all respect AA darling, I think you'll be an equally techy 'handful' too after you hit the big 80. But we'll be also forgiving, because like HM, you too are almost family!

James Petersen, London, Australia

Relax, Mr. Gil. We are not going to force you to revisit modern Athens, since you din't like it. I think we'll manage to live without you. Although I am sure that, had you spent your youth in ancient times, you would have made a career out of offering your company to those "who wore miniskirts and sandals".

Alexis Oikonomou, Athens, Greece

Come on you can hardly demand to tell a monarch when to take off his crown!

Marco, Venice,

This same old tired argument, i'm sure we would whinge about something if we were a Republic. In one sentence people slam these sorts of programs and in the next breathe seem to use them as back-up to changing the entire UK constitution!?! Most Republicans in this country end up in the House of Lords. *ahem*

Alex Delbarre, Bournemouth, Dorset

May God grant us the grace not to spill Gill's guts nor to send him up the Hill to lose both his nuts!

He should be taken to the Tower to be shaken not stirred.. till his teeth are a-chatter and his brain turned to curd!

One swift "whoosh!" of the axe is all that it takes to end his delusions and cure his headaches!

He should know better than to be so mean..to speak so ill...of our beloved Queen!

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA/

Great job again AA! I can't watch half these shows anymore but I still enjoy you're commentary as much as when I first started reading them.
The queen, like those silly wigs that barristers and judges have to wear seems like a strange anachronism now in modern Britain
Although a lot of americans are still completely obsessed with the royal family for some reason - weird.

By the way you're commentary on 'whole foods' in your food section was prescient . A week or two after you brought out your article, the Wall Street Journal published a story about how John Mackay has been writing blogs under various Psyeudonyms for the past 8 years talking up his store and demolishing the opposition.

AA quite rightly identified early that this so called 'libertarian' enterprise was just as duplicitous and profit-driven as any other major corporation.

Rudy Parker, Cambridge, USA

Like Lucy Scott, I am neutral on the subject of HMQ. I would ideally prefer to live in a republic, but that's not an option, certainly not for as long as HM survives, and that's likely to be longer than I will. After her, I don't think HRH will last long - he'll try to persuade the PM to do something daft, and will be told to abdicate. His son will then make a very different kind of head of state. So I suppose the monarchy has a good hundred years left in it. Meanwhile HMQ must be forgiven the odd moment of tetchiness. As Lucy says, would your Gran put up with a tenth of what HMQ has to put up with? (It doesn't alter the fact that whichever cub editor did that crass job on the videotape thinking it was a real clever thing to do should be shown the door, pronto.) As for Ms Hughes, I'm tired of documentaries that treat (?) us to endless tracking shots of presenters driving or riding around the place - we know she had to get to the Parthenon somewhow, does the mode of transport matter?

J.Fletcher, Canterbury, UK

Although I'm neutral on the topic of monarchy, the Queen has been subjected to life in a fishbowl her entire life, without complaint from her. Clearly, she has enough wealth to live quite comfortably as a private citizen, so her motives are not monies provided by the people; her motives are service to her country -- a country which, in the eyes of the tourists who flock to London annually, would be rather uninteresting without the albeit antiquated concept of monarchy, . Like it or not, she's earned a great deal of respect because of this service. In terms of her 'huff', as you've labelled it, please do remember that she is 81 years old, she'll die with her boots on, and she has a fully diary of commitments on a regular basis; now, please think of YOUR grandmother, and tell me she'd even consider performing one tenth of the Queen's current daily schedule.... Ladies and gentleman, the Queen is 81. If you cannot appreciate her, then lat least have the decency to eave her be.

Lucy Scott, London, UK

I was looking forward to the new Bettany Hughes series. What bizarre garb would there be endless footage of her striding around in? How many valuable minutes of documentary would be dedicated to her zooming to and fro in a sports car, or on a horse? In the event the programme is a vast improvement on previous efforts, though the editing was weird, especially at the end when ideas quickly piled up in time for the closing credits. Still waiting for the surprise revelation that all the good bits of Athenian democracy were thanks to the women.

Barry Shaw, Kings Lynn, England

Here here Mr Gill!

Whether Her maj was in a huff before or after the photographer got her hands on her, the real "crime" that Buck House imagine to have been committed by the BBC is the "crime" of showing her Maj to be a miserable old so and so. Toughen up Betty dearest or go off and join the Gloucestershire whist drive!

Simon Templar, Glasgow,