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Queen's Sister (The)

Country: UK, Language: English, 96 mins

  • Director: Simon Cellan Jones
  • Writer: Craig Warner
  • Producer: Sue Calverley; Kath Mattock

CGiii Comment

Not an overly cruel account of this old, pampered drunk - it could have gone so much further...but, it didn't.

Well-produced, directed and acted - but, a little too sparse on truth!


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The(ir) Blurb...

Following the death of her father George VI princess Margaret hopes to marry the war hero Peter Townsend but is told that if she does she will be cut out of the Civil List and receive no money. Throughout her life she is criticized by the anti-Royalist MP Willie Hamilton. She pursues a hedonistic life-style more suited to a wealthy upper class woman than a royal but in 1960 she meets and marries the photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones and they have two children. However Margaret's insistence on being a party girl puts a strain on the marriage and they drift apart, each having affairs. Depressed when one of her lovers Robin Douglas-Home kills himself Margaret finds unexpected solace with the much younger Roddy Llewellyn, an aspiring singer who lives on a commune and whop shelters her from publicity. However they are snapped kissing and are emblazoned across the gutter press. For Armstrong-Jones and the royal family this is the final straw. Margaret is last seen on the Caribbean island of Mustique where she had honeymooned but now she is alone.

Cast & Characters

Lucy Cohu as Princess Margaret;
Meredith MacNeill as Sharman Douglas;
Alex Barclay as Billy Wallace;
Edward Tudor-Pole as Cecil Beaton;
James Wallace as Sunny Blandford;
Aden Gillett as Peter Townsend;
Douglas Reith as Horace Featherstonehaugh;
Felicity Montagu as Gillian Fleming;
Peggy Batchelor as Mile End Flat Woman;
Peter Gordon as Mile End Flat Man;
David Threlfall as Prince Philip - Duke of Edinburgh;
Michael Elwyn as Archbishop Fisher;
Bruno Ouvrard as French Newspaper man;
Robert Fitch as Piers Waldron;
Jonathan Hansler as Colin Tennant