A Royal Christmas

This 2014 romantic film is part of the Hallmark Countdown to Christmas collection. We begin in New York City. Outside, it’s snowy and getting close to Christmas. Amidst the brownstone houses, Emily Taylor (Lacey Chabert) has just made breakfast for herself and her boyfriend Leo (Stephen Hagan). Leo is far away from home and just finished college in New York. The happy couple has been dating for about a year now, and they are looking forward to their first Christmas together. They have obviously grown very attached to each other. But then, Momma calls – Isadora – QUEEN Isadora! That’s right! Leo is actually Prince Leopold of Cordinia, a kingdom in the South of France. Leo has been enjoying his anonymity in the USA. Isadora wants Leopold to come home for the holidays, so Leo has to fess up about Leopold and his royal heritage. When Leo takes Emily home to meet the Queen (Jane Seymour), the fun begins. As you might expect, Isadora is just now finding out about Emily and it doesn’t sit well when she finds out her Leopold is in love with an American COMMONER, who is also the daughter of a tailor, and by trade, is a unsuccessful (but talented) dress designer. So Izzie starts out on a path to break up this relationship by trying to make Emily feel uncomfortable and by reminding Leopold of his duty to marry the Dutchess Natashia. Chabert has done several of the Hallmark Christmas movies and she is excellent, very appealing and down to earth. Hagan makes a nice match for her as the royal Prince and ordinary guy combined. Seymour is wonderful as the snarky, uppity Queen. The head butler, Victor, and Dutchess, Natashia are also great in their supporting roles. This is a very entertaining 87 minute flick about love vs. the perceived obligations of the throne.

Very good movie! Cast and story are excellent. Perfect Christmas move. Another Hallmark family movie.

Great movie

Hi, I enjoyed this movie

Loved the romance and the story

good dvd

Very cute movie. I'm into corny chick-flicks so this was great. I feel like they are too short though and wish it would get more in depth with the characters like how they met, when they started dating, etc. but guess that's a hallmark film for you. Films like these aren't so much about quality as more as just delivering a romantic, sappy, christmasy film. The acting does annoy me at times which is difficult to do considering I like corny films but it gets to be ok. According to my mum, I'm very critiquing so I commented on the casting, the script writers who I felt could have done better...it makes me wonder if these are low budget films but still. I feel like they could have done waay better and actually done a more than decent film. Overall, it left me disappointed but I still admired it enough to have seen it twice now.

Great product and arrived on time

Didn’t play

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Great film

First off – we all know that Christmas movies are cheese-fests! So – setting that aside, this movie is actually quite nice. This film combines my favourite things: marrying a prince and Christmas! This particular film was ranked pretty high as the best of this particular genre (marrying a prince over Christmas). The cast is wonderful: Lacey Chabert, Jane Seymour, and Stephen Hagan. Jane Seymour does an excellent job at playing a character we want to hate. I’m not familiar with Stephen Hagan, but he is a total cutie and definitely a prince that I would want to marry. There isn’t much to this film – it cuts right to the chase. Lacey Chabert’s character discovers her boyfriend is a prince within the first 15 minutes of the film. From there, she accompanies him home and tries to blend in - think “The Prince and Me” (2004). The film also incorporates concepts of noble lifestyle from “Gosford Park” (2001) and “Downton Abbey.” Overall, the movie’s concept is not original, (there are plenty of prince marrying, Christmas movies out there), it’s simple and unsophisticated; BUT still it’s a pleasure and joy to watch – especially if you enjoy the Christmas spirit. The five star rating is for the condition of the product. No problems with the case, disc, or shipping of the product.

Lovely film, can enjoy over and over again