HER MAJESTY MRS BROWN

At the height of Victorian England, an extraordinary scandal rocked the Monarchy. A relationship between a Queen and her servant. Between Queen Victoria and her Highland ghillie, John Brown. Starring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly, Mrs Brown is the story of a Queen's passionate attachment to an unrequited love. Brown's arrival at Court is the beginning of an extraordinary relationship. A confident Highlander with no respect for either the English or Court protocol, Brown quickly becomes the Queen's most trusted companion. The Queen, happy in Brown's company, withdraws even further from public life. Rumours of an affair begin to scandalise polite society and a crisis in the Monarchy seems inevitable.