So I learned the most BEWILDERING thing today, which is that back in 2004 Queen Elizabeth II invited French President Jacques Chirac to a banquet at Windsor Castle and someone (presumably not either of them) got the idea to invite the West End Les Mis cast and have them perform the show’s greatest hits in a room of powerful Europeans.
While a protest was going on outside the castle gates. (Unfortunately it was not a protest in favour of anything good, but that’s another story.)
Someone then made a documentary about it feat. the rageful songs of Les Mis set to the backdrop of banqueting at Windsor Castle, which is accidentally FANTASTIC social commentary, and a very bemused Michael Ball.
(You can watch it here. The non-Les Mis parts are very pro-monarchy and incredibly cloying.)