I heard an interview with auteur and star Dame Kristin Scott Thomas telling us that this is, to a degree, autobiographical. She lost both of her military fathers and her mother did, indeed, get around to marry a civilian for a third time. Where we digress from her truth is in the three more fictional characterisations of those who play her daughters in this drama. "Katherine" (Scarlett Johansson) has just been appointed to command aircraft carrier HMS "Prince of Wales" and is outwardly the most robust of the siblings who are gathering for their mother's forthcoming nuptials with the ostensibly…
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