Excellent film & to be seen as such,

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2007)

Using a screenplay by Peter Morgan,Stephen Frears has directed an excellent film about the British Royal family during the week after Princess Diana's tragic death & the furor it caused in both the Royal Family & the general Public, also involving the newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Helen Mirren IS Queen Elizabeth 11, & deserved every award she received for her Stirling performance. In fact the acting by the entire cast is superb, deserves mentioning,
Micheal Sheen is the exuberant Tony Blair, newly elected PM & in a crisis his first week. (side note as of this date he is still the PM)
James Cromwell is properly stodgy as Prince Philip. Alex Jennings does a fine job as Prince Charles (Diana's ex-husband)
Sylvia Sims portrays the aged Queen Mother perfectly.
We see some of the private lives of both the Roayl Family & the Prime Ministers. We really have no way of knowing how truthful any of these scenes are,They were done so well I did accept than as movie fact, not necessarily the whole truth but truthful enough to be accepted.
The cinematography especially the scenes near Balmaral Castle are fantastic. There are some actual archive scenes integrated in the film done with expert care,
This is a film for the entire family, Parents should inform younger children what this is about first.
Ratings ****(out of 10) 98 points(out of 100) IMDb 10 (out or 10)