Let's Go To The Movies: Guilty Pleasure

E! has released a new scripted television show which started on March 15, 2015 and is getting ready to air it's 4th episode this Sunday evening. Given my fascination with royalty, which started with Disney Princesses and progressed to Princess Diana the Princess of Whales and now Kate Middleton the Duchess of Cambridge, the show has become another guilty pleasure of mine in regards to television.

The show follows a fictional British royal family set in modern London and the chaos and drama that comes along with that title. Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley) and King Simon (Vincent Regan) are the classy monarchs who just lost their oldest son Prince Robert to a mysterious military accident. Their second eldest son Prince Liam (William Moseley) is to soon take over the thrown but is struggling to get rid of his playboy ways and become more regal. His twin sister Princess Eleanor (Alexandra Park) is a rebel who has attracted a lot of negative publicity because of her crazy lifestyle.

One reason this show has become somewhat addictive for me is that the family is so perfect, stylish and regal from the outside but absolute shambles on the inside. The love triangle between Prince Liam, his ex-girlfriend Gemma (Sophie Colquhoun) and the head of security's daughter Ophelia (Merrit Patterson), and the sexual tension between Princess Eleanor and her security guard Jasper (Tom Austen) provide me much entertainment; not to mention the tension between the Queen and Ophelia, Ophelia and Gemma and between the Queen and her children. Another new-found reason for my attraction is an article I found comparing the fictional family to the real British Royal Family. Read the comparisons from The Independent article.

Queen Helena - Princess Diana