On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.
The ingredients are here for a sweet, amusing royal fantasy for teenage girls. No matter that no one really knows what happened during those few hours, so long as what the filmmakers craft is credible.
ender, funny and occasionally raucous, it's what the tabloids might call a right royal knees-up.
A cheerful comedy-drama with charm to spare.
The princesses party like it’s 1945 in a slightly stiff period drama that might, nonetheless, prove to be this year’s The King’s Speech. America will adore it.
The antics of Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, who were allegedly allowed out to cavort with the masses on VE night, are presented as tame, trivial and sexless.
This is a poignant and entertaining affair, with enough of a satirical edge not just to seem like an exercise in cosy British nostalgia.
A Royal waste.
Some of the secondary characters veer into ludicrous Allo Allo accents and performances and the whole thing is utterly preposterous and yet, somehow preposterously fun.
An imagined VE Day knees-up for the two young princesses is trashy fun from start to finish.
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