Princess Elizabeth
and Princess Margaret request to be allowed to join the celebrations for V.E.
Day in 1945. Their parents, the
King and the Queen are very hesitant to let them go. The King asks for two officers to be sent over to escort the
Princesses and to bring them back to Buckingham Palace at exactly 1AM. Elizabeth and Margaret manage to escape
their escorts and they mistakenly get on different buses. Elizabeth meets Jack Hodges and he
helps her track down Margaret. Both
Princesses narrowly escape having more of an adventure than they bargained on.
There is a possibility
that this film could be loosely based on facts but there is no way for this to
be proven. It would be interesting
if this was a true story!! Princess
Elizabeth went gone on to rule as Queen for 64 years and counting. Her father in this film was King George VI. The Queen Mother (the Queen in this film
and also Elizabeth) was in this position for 50 years. Princess Margaret went on to
have a more public life and she married a commoner. The ending of WWII qualified as a reason for a public
celebration for all of Britain!! 3
½* (I liked this movie)
97
min, Comedy directed by Julian Jarrold with Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Emily
Watson, Rupert Everett, Mark Hadfield, Jack Laskey, Jack Gordon, Tim Potter,
Anabel Leventon, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Jack Reynor.
Note: Imdb 6.5 out of 10,
75% critic 57% audience on Rotten
Tomatoes, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 27 reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in Yorkshire,
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, England, UK and Brussels, Belgium. The Trafalgar Square scene was filmed
on May 8, 2014, the 69th anniversary of V. E. night. There is a mistake, the bus ticket
machine didn’t come into use until early 1960’s.
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