The story of the courtship of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, told at a time when their union still seemed to be a match made in heaven.The story of the courtship of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, told at a time when their union still seemed to be a match made in heaven.The story of the courtship of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, told at a time when their union still seemed to be a match made in heaven.
- Prince Edward
- (as Michael Knight)
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- TriviaLady Diana Spencer was played by Catherine Oxenberg. In reality, Oxenberg is a blood relative of the British Royal Family: her mother, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, is the second cousin of King Charles III as Princess Elizabeth's mother Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark was the first cousin of King Charles' father Prince Philip.
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Lady Diana Spencer: [following an attempt on the lives of members of the Royal Family] Your Majesty, you can't! You can't go out to the balcony.
Queen Elizabeth II: Diana, We see your concern for Our safety. But you must understand that so long as We reign, We must separate Our personal self from Our position. As a woman, you or I might choose to stay behind in the safety of this room. But as the Royal Family, we have no choice but to go forward and to face our people. Because you see, my Dear, we are the people. Do you understand?
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Cinema Snob: Friday the 13th (2013)
I rather wish it had really been the way it is portrayed here, although the opening scene of a young prince Charles rather ogling Diana as a child is creepy by today's standards. Unfortunately, as everybody knows now, Diana Spencer was merely the virginal Protestant who fit the bill as future mother to the heirs of the British throne rather than Charles' true love. THAT role had been the one of his current wife, Camilla, since the 1970s. But Queen Elizabeth rejected Camilla as a future wife for Charles because Camilla was not a virgin. The ensuing car wreck of scandals that appeared after her son married Diana, caused by the mismatch in interests and lack of love, and lack of truth in advertising to Diana as to what she was getting into apparently taught the royals a lesson for the 21st century - Let the young people fall in love.
Back to the film. Diabetics really shouldn't watch, but the performances are actually very good and quite a time capsule of the innocent early 80s, even though "innocent" is a word that those of us who lived through the early 80s would never use to describe that time.
Also note appearances by classic film era greats Ray Milland and Olivia DeHavilland. Their only other appearance in a film together was in 1946's hard to find "The Well Groomed Bride".
- AlsExGal
- May 11, 2023
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