Like many romance movies involving royalty, this one is about the sweet but plucky commoner girl vs the tradition of royalty. In this case, the evil queen opposes her son's romance with a girl from Philly and wants instead for him to marry the noble girl, a Duchess, whom he has known since childhood.
This story is not so much the story about the love of Victor and Emily as it is about Emily gaining the heart of the queen, who it turns out is maybe not so evil.
In the end, it is Emily's integrity that wins the queen's heart when she realizes that Emily is more true than herself.
Lacey Chabert always does a good job for Hallmark and here she plays the role of the tailor named Taylor very well. She sell the fact that her leaving is not just running away when she tells Leo it is the way things need to be. I wish I could say the same about Stephen Hagan. While he is quite the handsome man, he a little stiff, which may just be living up to the character of the prince. Jane Seymour is a real ice queen but that's her role. Katherine Flynn, as Natasha the Duchess, vacillates between plotting Emily's demise and actually respecting her and I don't think she is convinced of either one.
It is a nice plot device that Emily sticks to her guns and actually returns to Philly. And the response to that is obviously predictable, with a tiny twist, but it is what we really want to see in the end.
This story is not so much the story about the love of Victor and Emily as it is about Emily gaining the heart of the queen, who it turns out is maybe not so evil.
In the end, it is Emily's integrity that wins the queen's heart when she realizes that Emily is more true than herself.
Lacey Chabert always does a good job for Hallmark and here she plays the role of the tailor named Taylor very well. She sell the fact that her leaving is not just running away when she tells Leo it is the way things need to be. I wish I could say the same about Stephen Hagan. While he is quite the handsome man, he a little stiff, which may just be living up to the character of the prince. Jane Seymour is a real ice queen but that's her role. Katherine Flynn, as Natasha the Duchess, vacillates between plotting Emily's demise and actually respecting her and I don't think she is convinced of either one.
It is a nice plot device that Emily sticks to her guns and actually returns to Philly. And the response to that is obviously predictable, with a tiny twist, but it is what we really want to see in the end.