While we're on the subject of kings

Rico says he and the ladyfriend spent a Jewish Christmas (meaning Chinese food, bad, and a movie, good) seeing The King's Speech, a splendid film (as expected) starring Colin Firth as the future King George the Sixth and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue, a speech therapist brought in to fix the King's terrible stammer. It also stars Helena Bonham Carter (she of Howards End and Frankenstein and Fight Club and all the Harry Potter movies) as the future King's wife, along with Derek Jacobi as Archbishop Lang and a host of others.
See it, by all means.