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* ApprovalOfGod: The Queen herself enjoyed Helen Mirren's performance and actually invited her to Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, Mirren had to decline due to several schedule conflicts.

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* ApprovalOfGod: The Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII herself enjoyed Helen Mirren's Creator/HelenMirren's performance and actually invited her to Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, Mirren had to decline due to several schedule conflicts.



* FontAnachronism: While the film is set around the date of Princess Diana's death in 1997, the film shows the numberplate on the Range Rover as having the new style 'Charles Wright' font, which was introduced in September 2001.

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* FontAnachronism: While the film is set around the date of Princess Diana's [[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales Lady Diana]]'s death in August 1997, the film shows the numberplate on the Range Rover as having the new style 'Charles Wright' font, which was introduced in September 2001.



** 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 later 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.

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** [[UsefulNotes/CharlesIII Prince Charles' 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 later 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.
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** 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.

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** 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 later 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.
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* 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...

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* FontAnachronism: The While the film is set around the date of Princess Diana's death in 1997, 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...2001.
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* ApprovalOfGod: The Queen herself enjoyed Helen Mirren's performance and actually invited her to Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, Mirren had to decline due to several schedule conflicts.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/MichaelSheen looks nothing like UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, but he nails Blair's mannerisms and speech patterns so well that Blair himself conflated lines from this film with things he actually said.
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* ThrowItIn: Creator/HelenMirren suggested that Elizabeth clean her glasses with her sweater and line up pens while on the phone with Blair, and even got Frears to film an insert shot of the pens, based on childhood behaviors of hers in the tell-all book ''The Little Princesses'' by her old nanny.
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** 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.

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** 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.nevertheless.
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* FakeBrit: American Creator/JamesCromwell as Prince Phillip. And 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...
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** 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.

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