One week in the life of the Windsor Queen

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2019)

I remember I was visiting relatives when I heard about the death of Princess Diana
back in 1997. She was an international celebrity and something the royal family
had never had to deal with. Cast off wives were either locked up like George I's
queen and we know what happened to Henry VIII's wives.
But Diana was different , her charity work as well as her international jetsetting kept her in the news. So when she died people truly mourned.
And they wanted the Royals to mourn in the United Kingdom and show it. But
there was silence from the monarchy.
Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth II and she considered this a private ceremony. But
the country loved Princess Diana, ex-member of the family or not. James Cromwell is Prince Philip, Alex Jennings is Prince Charles, and Michael Sheen is
Tony Blair, new in the job of Prime Minister and facing a constitutional crisis.
The Queen got a few Oscar nominations and Helen Mirren won a Best Actress
Oscar. In this film you really do feel like you are peeking in on the British
Royal Family. When the monarchy is in danger they always do find a way of
saving it. It's an institution that depends on public relations and when public
opinion isn't good they have to work to make it good. As was done her.
They don't have the options Henry VIII did back in his day.