Tennyson is featured as a character in the story "Conjugial Angel" by A. S. Byatt in the book Angels and Insects.
The jury for the prize is called the Academy, the first academy includes Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee.
Interviewees include Javier Marías (King Xavier), Jon Wynne-Tyson (ex-King Juan II) and his wife Jennifer, Fay Weldon, Brian Stableford, Bob Williamson (King Robert the Bald), William L. Gates (King Leo), Oliver Cox, Cedric Boston (King Cedric), A. S. Byatt and Arthur Freeman.