User Reviews

I watched this movie because there was really nothing else on at the time, but I found myself enjoying it. The actors were good at portraying the ultra proper manner of the English aristocracy. I had heard the story of Charles and Camilla before, but this movie brought it home to me. It makes me understand why Prince Charles would go through everything he has endured to be with her.

Unfortunately, I was unable to watch the end of the movie, I had to leave right as Camilla offered to find Charles a wife. I was one of the people who watched as much of the Royal Wedding as I could and I watched the coverage of Prince Charles marriage to Camilla and as such, I wish I could have seen the rest, especially his relationship with Princess Diana.

I loved this movie and I've never taken the time to review a movie before. I couldn't help but see myself at 19 screaming the house down that my significant other better see me as the best and only love of his life, and also myself at 30 being the mature friend to a past lover now that we've moved in different directions. How could you not have these dynamics when your social circle is going to include all the same people from the time of your hormonal puberty through to the day you die? There is no question that Diana was caught in a web not of her own making. There is also no question she was so young and unprepared. I think watching this movie with an open mind puts a lot of things in perspective.

I really enjoyed this movie and the way it portrayed Charles and Camilla. They are not the villains people want them to be, they are just two people who found themselves so deeply in love that they couldn't stay away from each other. Olivia Poulet was a great Camilla, and portrayed how multi-layered she was and probably still is. She was definitely a woman of the 70's when she met Charles; though I have always wondered what it was about Andrew that made her hold onto him so hard, especially as opposed to Charles. Laurence Fox plays Charles in a very sympathetic light, though I must say if he, the writers and directors took the lost puppy dog angle a little too far. Charles had some awkward qualities about him but he still had a long string of girlfriends before he met Camilla and after she was married. Despite the fact that they didn't get Charles completely right, I think all involved did a great job of showing how important Camilla was to him and how she gave him something that no other woman, perhaps nobody in general, was able to give him. I must admit that I found myself falling in love with Laurence's Prince Charles, and his awkward, sullen, a little jittery man with a quiet strength about him. One of the stand outs in this movie is Princess Anne who only pops up from time to time but always steals the scene with her witty comments and her British nose permanently up in the air. I have never been a fan of Anne, but Alexandra made me like her and laugh at the world with her. Don't know if Anne was really like this, but in this movie she always has a sense of knowing what is going on and relaying to Charles the reality of a situation which he, for some reason, is unable to see. This is not a movie about Diana, or Charles and Diana; it is a movie about Charles and Camilla and their first and second go around, the second one which ended when Charles marries Diana. I feel Michelle Duncan played a good Diana who was shy, beautiful, and in love with the idea of Charles rather than Charles himself. All parties involved come off looking equally good, bad, and selfish; the movie ends with the hope that CnC will remain friends but put an end to the romantic and sexual aspect of their relationship and that Charles will somehow find happiness with Diana. I definitely think royal watchers should look into this movie.

This was quite an insightful tale about Charles and Camilla. I know if he could, he would have married her back then, and he did eventually. That said, it seems to my what they wanted to do, was to mold Diana in this quiet wife that would eventually fade into the background. They tried to played her and in the end, with the press, the public support and the public's fascination with Princess Diana, she played them. And the rest, they say, is history.

Its quite interesting the fact that Princess Anne had a fling with Andrew Parker-Bowles, I never knew that, it's also in the last episode of the Crown Season three.

One thing that bothers me though is, why was Queen Elizabeth so quiet in this film. She barely said anything throughout the film. I mean she is after all the head of the family. And any one who seen 'The Crown' would know that the Queen doesn't hesitate to give her opinion.