King Henry as played by Chalamet and a nod to the present House of Windsor

Shakespeare's Henry is the ideal national hero, and by showing his imperfection the freewheeling interpreter only brings the ruler closer to the people, so that the reckless drunkard and ne'er-do-well becomes all the more beloved and all the more patrioti.

Among the first words we hear from Chalamet's hero are those about Henry's unwillingness to become king, and even once crowned, the young man shows himself a popular, humane sovereign. This is, of course, a curtsey in the direction of the present House of Windsor. Only think: could a man of the Middle Ages, the absolute arbiter of destinies, who lopped off heads right and left, have spoken of democracy and love for the people? Here the Australian subject of Elizabeth II pays, as it were, his respects to his queen, who herself, like her family, largely bathed in the glow of the benign image of the late Princess Diana, strives to appear close to the inhabitants of the kingdom, to seem simpler, to act more rightly and more correctly, especially in light of the recent decisions of the princes to be simpler and more sensible.