History Film / TheQueen

* RoyallyScrewedUp: TheHouseOfWindsor, unsurprisingly. But it's mostly presented as them simply being very out of touch with their modern subjects.

Mirren's performance [[OscarBait in the title role was highly praised]] and earned her multiple awards, including the [[AcademyAwards Oscar]] for Best Actress.

* SympatheticPOV: Used for just about everyone involved, and for the most part it's pulled off successfully. The only POV we don't get in full is Diana's. From the still photos and interview clips, the film tries to hint that she's unhappy and alone.

The same production/writing/director team having made a previous film about Blair starring Sheen, 2003's ''TheDeal'', ''The Queen'' is now [[strike: retconned]] viewed as the second installment in the "Blair Trilogy", which was concluded by ''The Special Relationship'' (about Blair and BillClinton, with some Blair/Bush towards the end) in 2010.

** Not true. Many other people were surprised by the reaction. Mostly it was the media playing it up to epic proportions.

* HeartWarmingOrphan: Thankfully mostly off screen. You know who.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Poor Queen.

** Though most actors end up looking like who they're playing, with only two exceptions: Charles, whose actor doesn't look at all like him, and Phillip, who is also a well-known actor, as noted by HeyItsThatGuy.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Guess. Eventually, anyway.

* SympatheticPOV: Used for just about everyone involved, and for the most part it's pulled off successfully.
** The only POV we don't get in full is Diana's. From the still photos and interview clips, the film tries to hint that she's unhappy and alone.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Oh, go on, then, guess.

* FakeBrit: American Creator/JamesCromwell as Prince Phillip.
** It's stranger than that: Phillip is himself a part-Danish, part-German born in Greece who first moved to Britain when he was seven.
* FontAnachronism: The film shows the numberplate on the Range Rover as having the new style 'Charles Wright' font, which was introduced in September 2001. Keep in mind that Princess Diana died in 1997...

* RealitySubtext: Near the end of the movie, the Queen warns Blair that what happened to her can happen to him as well. It is almost certainly intended as a reference to Blair's FallenHero status in the eyes of many people following the Iraq War.
** Prince Charles' fears of being shot may at first be taken to be an overreaction and irrational fear, until you recall that only a few years ago in Sydney, Charles narrowly avoided being assassinated himself by a student republican protester. While the gun only carried blanks, he would have been highly shaken by it nevertheless.

Award-winning 2006 drama about how the popular and media reaction to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales came to shape the relations between the BritishRoyalFamily and the Blair government, with the main focus on the developing relationship between UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen (Creator/HelenMirren) and new Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TonyBlair (MichaelSheen).

* FakeBrit: American James Cromwell as Prince Phillip.

* WrenchWench: The Queen reminds one of her assistants she used to be one during [[WorldWarII the War]].

--> "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" - '''HenryIV, Part II'''

Award-winning 2006 drama about how the popular and media reaction to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales came to shape the relations between the BritishRoyalFamily and the Blair government, with the main focus on the developing relationship between UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen (Creator/HelenMirren) and new Prime Minister TonyBlair (MichaelSheen).

* ImpersonationParadox: Largely averted - Sheen's Blair, in particular, is eerily like the real thing in voice and mannerisms, despite not looking all that much like TonyBlair.

* TheMenOfDowningStreet: The film's subplot of how a Prime Minister interacts with the Queen - namely, how a "modern" Minister like TonyBlair is going to work with a woman who's so experienced she can name-drop UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill on you and get away with it.

Award-winning 2006 drama about how the popular and media reaction to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales came to shape the relations between the BritishRoyalFamily and the Blair government, with the main focus on the developing relationship between HMTheQueen (Creator/HelenMirren) and new Prime Minister TonyBlair (MichaelSheen).

* FontAnachronism: The film shows the numberplate on the Range Rover as having the new style 'Charles Wright' font, which was introduced in September 2001. Keep in mind that Princess Diana died in 1996...

* {{Flanderization}}: Largely avoided, the Windsors (and the Blairs) are shown as rounded, if dysfunctional, people. If anything, this is probably the most toned-down version of Alastair Campbell's personality and role in politics you'll see (compare ''TheThickOfIt'', just for starters).

* TheMenOfDowningStreet: The film's subplot of how a Prime Minister interacts with the Queen - namely, how a "modern" Minister like TonyBlair is going to work with a woman who's so experienced she can name-drop WinstonChurchill on you and get away with it.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[PrimeSuspect DCI Tennyson]] is the Queen! That tall guy from ''LAConfidential'' and ''{{Babe}}'' is Prince Philip! TonyBlair is [[Film/{{Underworld}} a werewolf]] and married to [[Film/HarryPotter Narcissa Malfoy]]!

* [[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep Everybody Calls Her The Queen]]: The Queen is always called "Your Majesty", "Ma'am", and Prince Philip calls her "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Cabbage]]" (the real Prince Philip's actual nickname for her) at some point, but she's never named.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[PrimeSuspect DCI Tennyson]] is the Queen! That tall guy from ''LAConfidential'' and ''{{Babe}}'' is Prince Philip! TonyBlair is [[Film/{{Underworld}} a werewolf]] and married to [[HarryPotter Narcissa Malfoy]]!

* BrickJoke: Directly after Diana's death, Charles voices his fears over being shot by an enraged Diana supporter. Much later in the film, when the Royal Family finally reaches Buckingham Castle, a motorbike backfires and Charles jumps and looks around in fright.

Surprisingly low on actual Diana-presence (occasional bits of archive footage only), and generally treats all the characters rather more sympathetically than might have been expected, including such stock figures of media fun as Charles and Philip, and for that matter the Blairs (though Cherie makes only fairly brief appearances).

Mirren's performance [[OscarBait in the title role was highly praised]], and she won many awards for it, including the [[AcademyAwards Oscar]] for Best Actress.

** Perhaps mroe of a Historical JerkAss upgrade, but only in regards to Diana.

** Prince Charles' fears of being shot may at first be taken to be an overreaction and irrational fear, until you recall that only a few years ago in Sydney, Charles narrowly avoided being assassinated himself by a student republican protestor. While the gun only carried blanks, he would have been highly shaken by it nevertheless.

* HypercompetentSidekick: AlistaiorCampbell for Blair and Robin Janvrin for the Royals.

The same production/writing/director team having made a previous film about Blair starring Sheen, 2003's ''TheDeal'', ''TheQueen'' is now [[strike: retconned]] viewed as the second installment in the "Blair Trilogy", which was concluded by ''The Special Relationship'' (about Blair and BillClinton, with some Blair/Bush towards the end) in 2010.

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