A Royal Affair is a historic film directed by Nikolaj Arcel and starring Mads Mikkelsen as Johann Friedrich Struensee, Alicia Vikander as Caroline Matilda, and Mikkel Folsgaard as Christian VII.
The film is set in the 18th century at the court of mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark, his wife Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, who has an affair with the king’s royal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee. Struensee gets beheaded and Caroline Matilda is sent away.
The film portrayed Struensee as speaking fluent Danish, even though he didn’t speak the language and only spoke German, which alienated him from Danish society. The ending of the film, it depicts that Caroline Matilda wrote a letter to her children declaring to them who her daughter’s father is; this is fiction and didn’t happen in real life.
A Royal Affair was a success on release and got rave reviews by critics.
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