Mrs Brown (1997)

Mrs Brown is a story school history books deemed too insignificant - - or too lacking in sound, historical fact - - to mention. Walking a path very successfully trod by The Madness Of King George, this period drama continues to mine the eccentricities of the Royal Family. This time, the theme is forbidden love - - to be precise, the supposedly "intimate" friendship that blossomed between the Empire's most famous monarch and a rough-and-tumble Scottish horseman. While it's never going to be a crowd-puller, Mrs Brown enjoyed much praise at the Cannes Film Festival, and it is an engrossing film: it'll delight the cineaste, and historians all over the country will, of course, be groaning.

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