Private Princess Christmas (2024)
Nope, not an X-rated movie, despite what the title might suggest…
Why is it that when non-British European royals are depicted on screen, they all have British accents? I guess the easy answer is that they might have attended a British boarding school in their youth. In this case the lead sounds like she’s doing a grade school impression of what she thinks a royal might sound like.
Violet is a European princess who needs to prove she is worthy of inheriting the throne by attending an American military bootcamp in Colorado in the leadup to Christmas. To complicate the inevitable love story, there’s an arrogant aristocratic boyfriend who gifts her a contraband cellphone to take with her so that they aren’t restricted to the palace’s switchboard (seriously, AS IF a royal in this day wouldn’t have a phone?!?). Once in Maple Ridge, BC Colorado, Violet is subjected to leadership bootcamp wherein she needs to run, build Christmas trees out of paper, bake, and… generally pal around with other rich kids whose parents spoilt them to the point this was the last resort to turn them into decent human beings.
Hallmark loves a good royal-does-good storyline, but this one was pretty atrocious. Not a Christmas movie. Bad acting. Crappy script. How they managed to license “Edelweiss” for this is beyond me! Unless that’s where literally 90% of the budget went because I can’t see where else they spent money on this one. I feel for Derek Klena, he was much better off in A Holiday Spectacular.
