Royal Affair, A

After gorgeous, independent, well-read, English princess Caroline Mathilda (Alicia Vikander) weds the mentally unstable, insufferable, narcissistic, immature, adulterous Danish King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) in 1766 in this slow-moving, colorful, factually based, 137-minute, 2012 film filled with beautiful costumes and striking cinematography, the bored, restless queen falls for the handsome the free-thinking physician Friedrich Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen) in Copenhagen, and when the ruthless king's stepmother (Trine Dyrholm) learns of her infidelity, it sets the stage for her and her lover's ultimate downfall.
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