Focus Features Takes Audiences Inside History's Most Unlikely Friendship

The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s remarkable rule.

When Abdul Karim [Ali Fazal], a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen [Academy Award winner Judi Dench] herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy.

As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.