This is the story of the death of Princess Diana of Wales and the relationship between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Royal Family upon hearing of her death. Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
8 August 1917, Pembroke, Bermuda
January 3, 1945 in Kendal, England, UK
8 September 1953, Scotland, UK
30 December 1959, Slough, Berkshire, England, UK
1 July 1961, Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England, UK
1947, Northamptonshire, England, UK
9 July 1956, Concord, California, USA
19 January 1963, London, England, UK
10 May 1957, Essex, England, UK
26 October 1953, London, England, UK
1977, Scotland, UK
29 May 1965, Dundee, Scotland, UK
16 August 1939, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
12 October 1935, Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
28 September 1947, Ardingly, Sussex, England, UK
3 July 1962, Syracuse, New York, USA
5 February 1969, Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
26 July 1945, Chiswick, London, England, UK
18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
24 June 1967, Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
12 March 1960, London, England, UK
20 June 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
January 30, 2017
Helen Mirren gives perhaps her most remarkable performance in an already remarkable career.November 22, 2006
With its lavish imagery and elegant writing, The Queen is a majestic film, and Mirren is the heir apparent to be crowned best actress of the year.November 03, 2006
In good times and bad, for good or ill, she is the public face of her nation. Mirren, Frears and Morgan let us see just how much a burden that mask has been.October 18, 2008
A lesser director might make all of this deadly earnest, but Frears treats it as what you might call a tragi-comedy of manners, perfectly serious but human foibles everywhere.October 27, 2006
Allows us to understand just how heavy the crown really sits.April 29, 2009
Surely to be considered at Oscar time.October 09, 2008
A disappointingly claustrophobic play at sympathy for someone so out of touch with her 'subjects.' And why blow it up for the big screen? . . . Where's the arc? The tragic flaw? The ebbs and flows to her character? . . . A middle-of-the-pack chamber dramaSeptember 17, 2010
Stuffed with stinging truths about swiftly turning winds of public opinion, Stephen Frears' film is a tough, fair-minded and, at times, morbidly satirical depiction of the extraordinary circumstance of leading in grief as well as government.February 09, 2011
The Queen will knock your socks off.February 03, 2007
Both [Michael Sheen and Helen Mirren] understand the prickly push-and-pull that defines the fight -- the Gray Monarch v. the Great Modernizer -- and give quiet gravitas to the polite but firm standoffs.October 27, 2006
We see not only the inner corridors of power, but also sense the inner workings of the royal mind. Stephen Frears' deft direction also gives the film insight and even humor.