The death of Diana transforms the public's perceptions of the Queen.

Rating: Null/10 (30 March 2012)

This is a remarkably well done and entertaining movie a comprehensive review of which I will leave to more accomplished writers. However, I was particularly taken by the manner in which the writer used the stag image, which I take was the turning point of his perception of the Queen. When she first sees this magnificent animal, she is transfixed. I fully expected her to immediately call her retainer and communicate her request to all land owners within the stag's natural range to protect "her" stag and to then have a confrontation with her fatuous husband.
By the writer's subsequent treatment of this scene, he condemns the queen to a harsh, uncaring person who cannot possibly be moved by her subsequent viewings of the people's flowers and faces outside the gates of her estate. The writer has thus squarely come down on the side of the Prime Minister's wife.
I flew B-17s with the 8th Air Force in WW-II. On my first pass to London I went to Westminster Abbey where a little old Londoner approached me and took me in tow, proudly showing me all the historic structures, his England, within walking distance although he obviously was a poor as a church mouse. At the end of the day, I offered him a pound note which he insisted on refusing. I thought, My God, the people represented by these building have been screwing my friend and his kind since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, as the saying goes, and still this is "his" England. Which is the message of The Queen.
Tony Blair was right.