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Trailer: Victoria and Abdul - in cinemas across Ireland from Friday 15th September

Academy Award winner Judi Dench reunites with director Stephen Frears to return to the role of Queen Victoria, in Victoria & Abdul

Victoria and Abdul

The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Academy Award winner Judi Dench) 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 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.
 
The story of their friendship, deliberately hidden for a century, is now told for moviegoers in Victoria & Abdul.

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