If you haven’t seen the wonderful Colin Firth movie The King’s Speech, you really should. It’s got some fantastic actors; it’s moving, heartwarming,
educational, and wonderfully funny at times. (Caveat: There’s a bit of swearing, one scene
is loaded with it, but it’s for speech therapy reasons.) It also has perhaps
the most normal character Helena Bonham Carter has ever played – Queen
Elizabeth. Not Queen Elizabeth I or
Queen Elizabeth II, but Queen Elizabeth, known as the Queen consort of King
George VI, and after his death, the Queen Mother. She was an incredible lady. Hers was a life of generous, loving service, devoted
to her husband, her children, and her country.