If Borja Cobeaga and Diego San José prepare a series, the duty of a series fan is to keep an eye on the result. Those responsible for the scripts of Eight Basque Surnames and Eight Catalan Surnames, who also triumphed alone on television (Cobeaga with I Don’t Like to Drive and San José with Vota Juan), now want to make a comedy with the monarchy and, after 10 weeks, The filming of Her Majesty with Anna Castillo has already finished.
The San Sebastian scriptwriter proposes the following story. In the Spain of 2024, Pilar is the princess and future queen of the State. She is not yet ready to take on the role but she has no choice when her father, King Alfonso XIV, must move away from the public front line after a scandal. So the young woman has to show the country that she is not the irresponsible, insolent, lazy and useless person they think she is. But… what if it turns out that she is?
The winner of the Goya for best new actress for El olivo and known for her work in The Call, Nowhere or Arde Madrid is Princess Pilar; Ernest Alterio (The Cable Girls, I Know Who You Are) is Guillermo, the protagonist’s secretary; Pablo Derqui (Nit i dia) is King Alfonso XIV; Ramón Barea (The Ministry of Time) is the head of the Royal House; Ana María Vidal (The Artists) is Guillermo’s mother; Lucía Díez (The Other Look) is Camino, the princess’s best friend; and Freddie Dennis (Queen Charlotte) plays an old flame.
For His Majesty, Cobeaga and San José have toured mansions, estates and elite locations such as the Linares Palace, the Madrid Casino, the Santoña Palace, the Quinta de Mirabel in Toledo and the San Ildefonso Farm in Segovia, in addition to the Moncloa Lighthouse, the Cebada Market, the Teatro de la Latina, the Escuela Superior de Canto and the Church of San José in Madrid.
The production, by 100 Balas by Mediapro and Sayaka Producciones, still does not have a release date on Prime Video, although the images from the filming show that reality is taken seriously.
