A Royal Night Out (2015)
Directed by Julian Jarrold
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.
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A young, pre-queen Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and her sister Margaret (Bel Powley) share a princess’ night on the town in this frothy, forgettable comedy from director Julian Jarrold (“Kinky Boots”), which plays as a sort of footnote to 2010’s “The King’s Speech.”
Rupert Everett is the King, aka Bertie the stuttering monarch we saw in The King's Speech.
Although their father relies on them to be with him when he speaks on the radio, still a very difficult challenge for the man whose stutter was the theme of “The King’s Speech,” they persuade their parents to let them out just once, so they can mingle among the “ordinary people.”
He considers this proposition and one minute later he's bought the idea, because he hasn't entirely conquered his stammer, despite all the work he put into this task in The King's Speech.
A fanciful, fictional imagination of what might have happened on the night of May 8, 1945, when Winston Churchill announced the end of World War II, if England’s cherished royal teenage princesses—ladylike Elizabeth and her feisty sister Margaret—had joined thousands of ordinary revelers on an incognito excursion into Central London, A Royal Night Out is not another revelation on the historic order of The King’s Speech, but it’s hearty, good-natured fun anyway.
As their parents, Rupert Everett (Justin and the Knights of Valour) and Emily Watson (Testament of Youth) rely more heavily on impersonation as a crutch, and invite unfavourable (and inevitable) comparisons to The King’s Speech.
…trilled Princess Anna in Disney’s 2013 smash “Frozen,” voicing the social (and perhaps sexual) yearnings of any number of repressed, restless princesses in the fairy-tale universe — as well as, if the delightful “ A Royal Night Out ” is to be believed, the young Queen Elizabeth II herself.