It is fortuitous then that her friend Beatrice invites her to tag along on a European vacation, a trip to a small country named Calpurnia, in the south west of the French Alps. Maggie kinda needs some time to reset her mind, and figure out what she actually wants to do with her life... Fortune however doesn't seem to want Maggie to do much thinking because shortly before she arrives, a gust of wind blows her hat away and a handsome young man runs over it with his motorbike. He gallantly gets the girl a new hat and after that... Well... Everything pretty much gets off the rails.
Adrian, the young man, invites Maggie out for a latte. She reluctantly accepts. She's not the spontaneous type, he seems to be just that, but somehow, the two of them click. They talk for a long time, and it feels like they've known each other for ages. She tells him about the job offer, the work she did volunteering with kids during law school, how she will miss working with something that's truly fulfilling, truly helping people and making a difference. He thinks she's just like himself. They start to fall in love with each other.
The trouble is, Adrian failed to tell her he is a prince, about to undergo a coronation to become king in just a few days...
In some sense, Adrian is similar to Prince Richard of Aldovia (A Christmas Prince), in that the press paints him as a playboy millionaire, but he's actually the farthest thing from it. Whenever he so much as gives a girl directions on the street the paparazzi capture it on screen and report it as the prince's latest conquest. His idea of fun, however, is training a children's volleyball team in a foundation he built from nothing as soon as he came of age. He is compassionate and kind, and really fond of his motorbike, but that's as far as his wildness seems to go. Unlike Richard though, he isn't really reluctant about accepting his crown. He is more or less at peace with his role... A little worried that he won't be as good a king like his father, and worried that he will never be able to make his ideas about modernizing the crown come to life.
His mother, the queen, is entirely too attached to tradition. She is determined not to allow her son's wish to open the coronation to the public to become reality. She worries he's all too immature for his position, mostly because she doesn't really know who he is. It takes an outsider, Maggie, to barge into her office and tells her one truth or two.
A Royal Christmas is a movie about being young and discovering your own path in the world. Figuring out what you want, what you don't want, and taking chances with those uncertainties. Okay, maybe it isn't trying to be that deep, but that is the discovery that each of the main characters makes along the film, and the backbone on which these discoveries stand is the relationship between the two.
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