In her Oscar winning role, Helen Mirren gives the performance of a lifetime. Her Queen Elizabeth II is: stoic, stubborn, obsessive - compulsive, rigid, obsessed with protocol - but not without at least a little bit of a heart. She never liked Diana and is reluctant to accept the importance of the dead princess to the British people but, from the urging of Prime Minister Blair, she comes to realize the long - lasting legacy that Diana will leave behind.

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