Um, well, yeah, we certainly do disagree on a thing or two. A central theme in this film is the ever-present potential for conflict between how HM wants and perhaps needs to behave as a human being, and how she's expected to act (by others, but also by herself) as monarch. She isn't just their grandmother, she's also their sovereign, which brings in a whole lot of baggage that worms its way into her relationships with every last person in her life, including her son and her husband. As this film shows, often brilliantly.
In that context, how she behaved towards the young princes is very much fair game-- artistically, that is. Just not "fair game" in the sense of "we'd like to make a movie we can show without a lot of protests from Parliament, threats of lawsuits, etc." It's those other kinds of considerations that aren't always readily apparent to us Americans, which is why my first post was so awkwardly written; it's as if I was thinking out loud.
"I don't deduce, I observe."
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