’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies
What exactly is it about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that says “tiara romance”?
In 2017, someone at Netflix tweeted from the streaming platform’s account about its new Christmas offering: “To the 53 people who’ve watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?”
The tweet sparked a news cycle’s worth of internet outrage, mostly centered on the creepiness of Netflix’s data capturing and subsequent public sharing, however anonymized, and not on the sentiment of the tweet itself. Perhaps many of us would agree that if you’re watching a movie like A Christmas Prince every day for more than two weeks, something isn’t right.
A Christmas Prince was successful enough to prompt two sequels: A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, released for the holiday seasons of 2018 and 2019. Netflix added another royal Christmas franchise in 2018 with The Princess Switch, the third of which came out in 2021, which also brought A Castle for Christmas.
