Hell Close

Hell Close is the street that the Queen and her family move into when Jack Barker wins a general election and moves the Royal Family from Buckingham Palace to a council estate.

Location
Hell Close - an abbreviation from it full name, Hellebore Close - is one of the streets in the Flowers Council Estate, later F.E.Z.. Hell Close is described as 'the place where the most undesirable of the undesirables live'. The houses and their gardens are past saving, the residents can't speak properly and the newsagents is surrounded with barbed wire. Police cars are a common sight; in The Queen And I, Prince Philip sees a young man (presumably Lee Christmas) picked up by a passing police car and thrown into the back of it by two burly policemen. The fences of the houses are either falling apart or not there. Prince William falls over and knocks down the fence surrounding Mandy Carter's garden. The gardens are always overgrown, up to a person's waste at times, and only kept down by the disregarded mattresses left to soak the rain and damp.

Residents
See: List of Hell Close residents