With you on missing some characters, though keeping Nora seems a better choice than keeping June. It's always startling how little of a book fits into a two-hour movie -- evidently visuals aren't always worth a thousand words. Well, not the same thousands words as were in the book...
Agree also that the royalty stuff is weirdly AU: weird by constantly implying that Henry is the current heir apparent, when his older brother is *right there* and all the other succession links and titles are as skewed as you detail. Less weirdly, because British fiction that has royal-family characters generally fictionalizes them, however lightly, and reconciling the fictional characters with the weight of actual history is always a bit of a broken jigsaw puzzle. Even so, it's odd that McQuiston, or at least the RW&RB characters, seem confused about who's in line for what. (One can theorize that maybe Philip-the-brother isn't *technically* legitimate due to Catherine being the kind of free spirit who defied the royal-protocol machine to the extent of having a child with her movie-star boyfriend before they got married; then Henry could be considered the first in line after Catherine... but this ignores Beatrice, and is pure theory anyway.)
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Date: 2023-08-25 07:56 pm (UTC)Agree also that the royalty stuff is weirdly AU: weird by constantly implying that Henry is the current heir apparent, when his older brother is *right there* and all the other succession links and titles are as skewed as you detail. Less weirdly, because British fiction that has royal-family characters generally fictionalizes them, however lightly, and reconciling the fictional characters with the weight of actual history is always a bit of a broken jigsaw puzzle. Even so, it's odd that McQuiston, or at least the RW&RB characters, seem confused about who's in line for what.
(One can theorize that maybe Philip-the-brother isn't *technically* legitimate due to Catherine being the kind of free spirit who defied the royal-protocol machine to the extent of having a child with her movie-star boyfriend before they got married; then Henry could be considered the first in line after Catherine... but this ignores Beatrice, and is pure theory anyway.)