Heh, I'm glad I wasn't the only the one who saw the sports-movie-ness. Of course, the stakes are a little higher here than the championship against the hated rival, but.. well, yeah, that's pretty much the closest we get in America.

Yeah, of course I wouldn't want to change it, but the regular turnover in our government certainly doesn't encourage the kind of relationship a monarch has with his/her citizens (we won't even go into how difficult it is to like or respect or even trust our government these days). Anyway, I totally plan to watch the royal wedding if I can. Reminds me of when I was in England and saw the crown jewels- they had a recording of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation playing, and it honestly gave me chills. *sigh* Voyeuristic, that's exactly the word.

Yeah, as the movie wound down, I really wanted it to keep going and show more of George VI's reign and his friendship with Lionel and relationship with his family... but I knew it couldn't go very long, because Elizabeth II was crowned when she was still a young woman and... Oh, Bertie... In regards to Edward VIII, in the end we ought to be grateful he abdicated, since he felt Hitler was an okay guy and all.