Mrs. Queen Takes The Train, le film

Simon Curtis (My Week with Marylin, The Woman in Gold avec Helen Mirren) va adapter le roman de William Kuhn, Mrs. Queen Takes The Train (jamais traduit en français il me semble).
Il s'agit d'une comédie british dont l'héroïne est, comme son titre l'indique, la Reine d'Angleterre.

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The story follows Queen Elizabeth as she decides to escape to Scotland incognito, forcing a desperate team of courtiers to find her and bring her back before anyone notices she’s gone. Read more below.

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After decades of service and years of watching her family’s troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain’s Queen is beginning to feel her age. She needs some proper cheering up. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace into the freedom of a rainy London day and heads for King’s Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a characterful cast of royal attendants has discovered her missing. In uneasy alliance a lady-in-waiting, a butler, an equerry, a girl from the stables, a dresser, and a clerk from the shop that supplies Her Majesty’s cheese set out to find her and bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal.

Mrs Queen Takes the Train is a clever novel, offering a fresh look at a woman who wonders if she, like Britannia herself, has, too, become a relic of the past. William Kuhn paints a charming yet biting portrait of British social, political, and generational rivalries—between upstairs and downstairs, the monarchy and the government, the old and the young. Comic and poignant, fast paced and clever, this delightful debut tweaks the pomp of the monarchy, going beneath its rigid formality to reveal the human heart of the woman at its center.

Ça a l'air marrant, je le lirai si je le trouve, avant la sortie du film j'espère.

Après La reine des lectrices d'Alan Bennett où la reine d'Angleterre devenait une lectrice assidue, je suis très interessée par ce livre où elle décide de s'échapper/s'évader de son monde pour prendre le train