Meh ... Wouldn't be rated this high if it weren't a costume pic.

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2019)

Good cinematography, nice Baroque music. Olivia Coleman has a reliable comedic style that goes as far back as Mitchell and Webb Situation and Peep Show. So there's the three plus.
But it's not an historically accurate film - and that's fine. Creativity is, after all, encouraged. And there's the polarized portrayals of men and women - women are witty, fully developed, ambitious; men are shadowy caricatures - and that's fine. Get the message, even though that's not exactly a new message. My biggest problem with this story is that the story itself is not compelling at all. Difficult to care for any of them, and I suspect that few would care for it if labels such as "true historical characters", "costume drama", and above all "royalty", are not glued to it, if it happened in some random old spinster's household in ... Milton Keynes. If so, then this film is playing to a low common denominator - sensationalism without sensation.