Mrs Brown Cannes Film Festival and released in the United Kingdom on 5 September 1997. Dench was nominated for many awards for her performance, including the Academy Award for Best Actress, but lost to Helen Hunt for her role in "As Good as It Gets". Several screens of text giving some background are shown before a bust is shown flying over a palace wall and shattering into countless pieces. The film shows the story of a bereaved Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her relationship with a Scottish servant, John Brown (Billy Connolly), and the subsequent uproar it provoked. Brown had been a
MS Queen Victoria late 2010. During a call at Sydney, "Queen Victoria" was illuminated in pink in support of Breast Cancer Research. On 9 December 2010 Cunard announced its first female captain, Faroese born Inger Klein Olsen, who would take command of "Queen Victoria" beginning on 15 December. January 2011: Two years after the first Cunard Royal Rendezvous, on the same date, met up with both "Queen Victoria" and for another Royal Rendezvous in New York City on 13 January 2011. Both the "Queen Victoria" and "Queen Elizabeth" made a tandem crossing of the Atlantic for the event. All three ships met in