From their secretive early romance to their declarative PDAs and eventual engagement, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s relationship has played out like the kind of fairy-tale usually reserved for the movies. Before the couple’s May 19 wedding, which will feature an appropriately whimsical horse-drawn carriage ride through the streets of Windsor, check out these feature films — some fact, some fiction, all a romantic’s dream — about royal love stories…
A Christmas Prince (2017): It’s probably not surprising that a lot of the best fictional royal love stories are set during the holidays; the inherent magic of the Christmas season feels like a fairy-tale on its own. Netflix had a viral sensation on its hand with A Christmas Prince last year — partly because of the film, about an undercover journalist who falls in love with an adopted prince, but also because of its now-iconic tweet roasting the film’s most dedicated viewers.
A Royal Christmas (2014): We already know the Hallmark Channel is the ruler of all things Christmas and romance; why not add a little royalty in there, too? In this made-for-TV film (which you can buy on Amazon), Lacey Chabert stars as a seamstress who discovers that her boyfriend is actually a prince. She heads home with him for the holidays, but she has her work cut out for her trying to convince the queen (Jane Seymour) that her lowly, commoner self is suited for royalty.
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