Airdate: Undercover Princes

This month ABC2 will screen the British reality series which sees three bachelor princes from India, Sri Lanka and South Africa searching for love in Brighton, UK.

This very endearing reality series has already aired in Australia on Pay TV.

Watching these three princes from different walks of life assuming ‘commoner’ roles as a way of finding true romance was entertaining stuff. The three are let to live together too, and one is gay.

The series was reviewed by TV Tonight last year.

Three exotic bachelor princes travel from afar to find true love with an English rose. However, so the people they meet will love them for themselves and not their wealth and status, they are going undercover, living and working as ordinary people for the first time in their lives.

The three bona fide princes from India, Sri Lanka and South Africa look for love in the English seaside party city of Brighton, a city steeped with royal heritage and a higher than average number of ‘singletons’. Without their trusty servants to do the shopping, cooking and cleaning, coping with everyday life is the first challenge!

They have three weeks. They ‘hit the singles scene’, trawling bars and clubs, internet dating sites and even try their hand at speed dating in their bid to find a partner amongst ‘commoners’.

Forty-three-year old Crown Prince Manvendra is from one of India’s richest royal families and shocked the world in 2006 by becoming the first Indian royal to come out as gay.

His Royal Highness Prince Africa Zulu is from Zululand South Africa. At 30, he should have taken a wife by now. How will this fun-loving, conservative, traditional prince cope with the liberal Brighton culture, and with Prince Manvendra’s sexuality?

His Royal Highness Prince Remigius of Jaffna Sri Lanka is looking for a queen to continue the royal line, but for a man raised in accordance to a strict protocol, only an aristocrat will do.

At the end of their time in England, the princes surprise their chosen ones by revealing their true identity and whisk them back to their kingdoms!

Undercover Princes airs Wednesday July 21st 8:30pm on  ABC2.