- Awesome Music: The music played at Chelsea Barracks when the princesses finally get to their party.
- Broken Base: The Artistic Licence – History. Some viewers can't forgive it and feel it hurts the story, while others take it as Rule of Funny and enjoy the film with a dose of the MST3K Mantra.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Bel Powley's performance as Margaret makes her the preferred character in the movie. Doubly ironic considering how little information Powley claimed was out there about the real woman in her youth.
- Genius Bonus: Everyone else calling Elizabeth "Lillibet". That was her nickname from a young age, because she wasn't able to pronounce her own name as a child - and 'Lillibet' was what she called herself.
- He Really Can Act: After playing a character who was The Scrappy in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Jack Reynor proves that What Richard Did was not a fluke. He gives a very subtle and layered performance as a Shell-Shocked Veteran, more than holding his own against the two leads. More superficially, he also nails the 1940s era cockney accent.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: This 2015 movie is about Elizabeth anticipating that she'll be Queen one day, and ends with her affirming her life of duty after one evening of fun. The very next year, The Crown (2016) starts airing; and that series begins with her becoming queen. Some even joked that A Royal Night Out was a prequel.
- One-Scene Wonder:
- Mickey the gay palace servant, who snaps to attention whenever the princesses pass. He got the information about the Chelsea Barracks party for Margaret from one of his "friends", and also gets this fun exchange.Margaret: We're incognito.
- The spiv in Soho (Roger Allam) who helps Margaret get to Chelsea - and is a huge fanboy of the Royal Family. He doesn't have a lot of screentime but his part is one of the more memorable in the film."P-2 in my knocking shop?"
- Mickey the gay palace servant, who snaps to attention whenever the princesses pass. He got the information about the Chelsea Barracks party for Margaret from one of his "friends", and also gets this fun exchange.
- Questionable Casting: Some people had this reaction to Rupert Everett getting cast as King George.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Bel Powley is more recognisable now, having since starred in The Morning Show, the Benidorm sitcom and as the voice of Little My in Moominvalley.
- Jack Reynor was known for Transformers: Age of Extinction, but this was right before appearing in more remembered films like Sing Street and Midsommar.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Queen Mother in real life was known to be a charming and witty Cool Old Lady. She doesn't feature too much in this film, mostly as a rather stuffy Upper-Class Twit.
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