Queen dowager
The film is set in London in June 1911. George V will be crowned king on 22 June and in the preceding days many important dignitaries arrive. Among those arriving are the 16-year-old King Nicholas VIII of the (fictional) Balkan country of Carpathia, with his father the widower Prince Regent, Charles, and his maternal grandmother the widowed Queen dowager of Carpathia (inspired by King Michael I of Romania, Carol II of Romania, and Queen Marie of Romania).