Watched on: Netflix
Originally aired: November 25, 2023
Directed by: Bradley Walsh
Starring: Danica McKellar, Damon Runyan, and Nigel Hamer
Please see IMDb for full cast and crew info.
Synopsis
Bella Sparks, runs Bella's Boutique. Stefan needs to be outfitted for a week of high-stakes meetings after his luggage goes missing. She accidentally discovers Stefan is actually Stefan William Francis Brown, the Duke of Tangford.
Review
A Royal Date for Christmas gives us a Pretty Woman storyline without the prostitution base. And why does Bella agree to be this originally rude stranger's plus one for all these events he's attending? Because she's trying to open a mobile boutique in addition to her storefront and the money he's offering would really help with that. Ignoring the fact that she could also just have overcharged him for all the clothes he desperately needed after his luggage was lost on his flight across the Atlantic (he was very rude and would have deserved it thank you very much).
So is this a Christmas movie? Some of the activities that Bella and Stefan engage in during his stay in the US include building a snowman, cutting down a Christmas tree for the manor, and Christmas cake baking and decorating. Not to mention the fact that his big fundraiser event is at risk of being cancelled due to some less than favorable press about him post break-up, and it has plenty of the typical Christmas cheese to qualify as a Christmas movie.
Of the three movies I've reviewed so far this year, this falls right in the middle of the pack with a 3.5 Santa hat rating. - Katie
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