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Director:
Simon Cellan Jones
Writer:
Craig Warner (written by)
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Release Date:
5 March 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
Uneven in tone, but Lucy Cohu does a great job more (6 total)

Cast

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Lucy Cohu ... Princess Margaret
Meredith MacNeill ... Sharman Douglas
Alex Barclay ... Billy Wallace
Edward Tudor-Pole ... Cecil Beaton (as Edward Tudor Pole)

James Wallace ... Sunny Blandford
Aden Gillett ... Peter Townsend
Douglas Reith ... Horace Featherstonehaugh
Felicity Montagu ... Gillian Fleming
Peggy Batchelor ... Mile End Flat Woman
Peter Gordon ... Mile End Flat Man
David Threlfall ... Prince Philip - Duke of Edinburgh
Michael Elwyn ... Archbishop Fisher

Bruno Ouvrard ... French Newspaper man
Robert Fitch ... Piers Waldron
Jonathan Hansler ... Colin Tennant
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
UK:15 | Australia:M
Company:
Touchpaper Television more

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Goofs:
Factual errors: Lillebet and Margaret Rose ALWAYS referred to their uncle as "Uncle David", which was his given name. The idea that Princess Margaret, years later in conversation with Prince Philip, would call him "Uncle Edward" is totally preposterous. At her coronation, Queen Elizabeth II had 2 children (Charles and Anne). That would make her only sister third in line to the throne (not fifth, as claimed by the bogus announcer). Yes, years later 2 further children pushed Margaret back to fifth in line - - but certainly NOT at the time of the coronation. more
Quotes:
Danny La Rue: [Princess Margaret has seen Danny naked; he proceeds to cover himself up] What are you doing here?
Princess Margaret: Don't worry, Danny, I've seen a queen's crown jewels before!
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Uneven in tone, but Lucy Cohu does a great job, 23 April 2006
7/10
Author: paul2001sw-1 (paul2001sw@yahoo.co.uk) from Saffron Walden, UK

Princess Margaret, the Queen's once beautiful sister, is today best remembered for her infamous rudeness, dissolute lifestyle, and premature infirmity. But it is possible to feel sorry for her, and to see as as spoilt by a combination of the absence of a role, and the first intrusions of our evolving celebrity culture. The 'Queen's Sister' is a rather peculiar rendering of her story: some of the time, it appears to be a sympathetic account of the (partly self-inflicted) awfulness of her life, but it intermittently descends into raucous satire with relatively little care for historical truth (for example, if you were to take it literally, you'd conclude the Robin Douglas-Home was Harold Wilson's son in law!). It's saved by a superb performance from Lucy Cohu as the Princess, aided by some excellent make-up work: she's physically convincing throughout, even though her character ages by over twenty years during the span of the drama (though the scenes where she sings never seem real). Interestingly, the Queen makes not a single appearance, though it's unclear whether this is a reflection of the truth, an unwillingness to directly attack the monarch, or simply a wicked delight in the idea that she only spoke to her sister through her husband, who is played by David Threllfall (clearly taking a few steps up in the world from playing Frank Gallacher!). In fact, Threlfall's performance as Philip reminds one less of the real Prince, but more of Rory Bremner impersonating his son. Overall, this is a curate's egg of a film, but Cohu makes it worth watching.

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