The acting, the writing, the set direction - it's stunning. Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter deserve Oscars...
Bertie died very young and that's how Elizabeth took over in 1952. I'm old enough to remember seeing her coronation on TV. To see this movie done so well, filling in the blanks before her reign, well, I guess you can tell that I loved this movie and recommend it without reservation.
Everyone forgets about Judith Miller, the reporter from the New York Times who published the mis-information that she was fed that in large part led up to the American people accepting the that there were WMD, hence the reasons for going to war.