Movie A Royal Night Out starring Sarah Gadon is ‘silly, charming and utterly disposable’

REVIEW: A Royal Night Out, loosely based on events in London on VE Day in 1945, starring Sarah Gadon, is a ‘ferociously fluffy light comedy’.

A Royal Night Out (M)

Director: Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited)

Starring:Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, Jack Reynor.

Rating: **1/2

Dubious night on the Crown

Let’s meet the Windsor girls of the ferociously fluffy light comedy that is A Royal Night Out, shall we?

Elizabeth (played by Sarah Gadon), aka ‘Lilibet’, is the elder of the two at 19 years of age.

Then there’s Margaret (Bel Powley), aka ‘Mags’. She’s 14, going on 49.

Tonight, this pair of princesses is gonna party like its 1945.

VE Night 1945, to be exact.

Princesses want to party ... Actor Sarah Gadon (left) as Princess Elizabeth and fellow thespian Bel Powley as Princess Margaret in a scene from film A Royal Night Out.

As A Royal Night Out begins, British PM Winston Churchill has declared World War II to be officially outta here.

As a result, the whole of London has lost its stiff upper lip, and is now off its face.

Meanwhile, inside Buckingham Palace, King George VI (Rupert Everett) and his missus (Emily Watson) are keeping all high times on the down-low.

Getting blitzed on champers and dancing in a fountain like the rest of the nation just isn’t the done thing.

Which, of course makes it the very thing Elizabeth and Margaret wish to do on this once-in-a-lifetime evening.

After making some frowny faces and emitting some displeased harrumphs, the Windsor gals are given reluctant permission to venture out into the city to join the revelry.

Ready to party with the commoners ... Actor Bel Powley (left) as Princess Margaret and Sarah Gadon as Princess Elizabeth in a scene from film A Royal Night Out.

There will be chaperones (sure to be ditched), a curfew (sure to be ignored), and among other daintily dangerous encounters with the common folk, an accidental visit to a “house of ill repute” (surely not?).

Whether or not any of this unapologetically featherbrained malarky actually happened is not a matter for debate. It did not.

shall we dance with ourselves or with the boys ... Actor Sarah Gadon (left) plays Princess Elizabeth and Bel Powley portrays Princess Margaret in a scene from A Royal Night Out.

Yes, the BuckPal belles did “go outside’ the front gates of their house in the company of about a dozen minders to attend a carefully vetted function in the city.

However, Princess Elizabeth (she’s a Queen these days — you can look that up on Wikipedia if you don’t believe me) did not almost become romantically involved with a strapping young AWOL airman.

total fiction ... English actor Bel Powley as Princess Margaret in a scene from A Royal Night Out.

And her younger sis most certainly did not get on the turps while hanging off the arm of a bloke three times her age.

Overall, a film as silly, charming and utterly disposable as you allow it to be.

Originally published as Movie A Royal Night Out starring Sarah Gadon is ‘silly, charming and utterly disposable’