10 Royal Wedding-Themed Movies

If you want to relive the royal wedding of William and Kate you can watch one of these 10 outstanding films with themes on royalty and marriage. One features an animated film while some are musical and comedies, but most are based on historical royal couples.

Royal Wedding
Here is a musical starring Fred Astaire about a brother and sister dance team in London during the height of Princess Elizabeth (current Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip's Royal Wedding in 1947. One of the actors, Peter Lawford, whose father Lord Sydney was a decorated British general and his mother Lady Lawford were knighted. Peter was married into the Kennedy family. The Kennedy's are considered America's Royal Family

The Queen's Sister
Before there was Princess Diana there was the younger sister of the present Queen of England, Princess Margaret. She was constant fodder for the British tabloids with her wild partying and hedonistic lifestyle. The film focuses substantially on her love relationship with Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a photographer. Their wedding is televised, but eventually the marriage self destructs whereby ultimately ending in divorce.

Marie Antoinette
This biopic is a prime example of royal marriages being arranged. You get to know this infamous royal couple from their courtship, marriage and tragic death. The costumes from this time period are absolutely stunning.
The Young Victoria
The film focuses on the early years of Queen Victoria's 63-year reign. Much of the film is about her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert. Emily Blunt stars as Queen Victoria.

Bertie & Elizabeth
An excellent TV movie on one of the greatest royal love stories, the Duke of York who is also known by his nickname, Bertie, and the Duchess of York who was the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. It opens with them meeting at a dance. They marry in 1923, but their lives change forever when Bertie's older brother abdicates the throne. The actors who portray Bertie and Elizabeth are absolutely brilliant. This is a superb precursor to the Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech."

Coming to America
An African prince poses as a commoner in the U.S. to meet a girl who likes him for who he is, not what he is. Eddie Murphy stars in this hilarious comedy as an heir to throne who is expected to marry his betrothed. She ends up being a programmed robot liking everything he does. That's when he decides to go to Queens, New York to live in the worst neighborhood. He works in a fast food burger joint and falls in love with the owner's daughter.

The Princess Bride
It's an adventurous romantic comedy about a beautiful girl named Buttercup, played by Robin Wright, who is expected to marry a nasty prince, but loves someone else who treats her like a lady and a princess. This fairy tale-like story will keep you interested from start to finish.

Cinderella
Just about all royal romances from Grace Kelly, Princess Diana and Kate Middleton have been heavily compared to this Disney animated classic. The story and film itself is timeless and hopelessly romantic.

The Swan
Grace Kelly, whose own wedding dress inspired Kate Middleton's, starred in what would be her last film before her royal marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. It is an ironic film in which Kelly stars as a princess who is expected to marry her betrothed, but falls in love with someone else. Kate Middleton was the lead in a school play where she was predicted to marry a prince name William.

The Sound of Music
One of the best family films of all time. It is the true story of Maria who is studying to become a nun. Her freewheeling nature concerns the Mother Superior and her staff. Maria is sent off into the secular world to work as a governess for seven children who belong to a widower Baron. Eventually Maria and the Baron Von Trapp fall in love and get married. Kate's dress has also been compared in the press to similarities of Maria Von Trapp's wedding dress when she marries the Baron.

Royal wedding fever will get to a fervent pitch while watching some or even all of these great films. It's the perfect way to spend a weeknight or weekend no matter the royal occasion. Grab one of these DVD titles, put your tiara or hat on and have a royally good time.