I Watch Films: The King's Man
The King’s Man (2021) In 1902 Orlando Duke Of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) is bringing humanitarian aid to concentration camps in the Boer War with his wife and young son Conrad. His wife is shot, and makes him promise Conrad will never go to war. He attempts to honour this by creating an intelligence network of domestic servants amongst the great and the good of Europe (and later America) to try and prevent war. His assistants are his butler Shola (Djimon Hounsou) and maid Polly Wilkins (Gemma Atherton). He meets with his friend/ally Lord Kitchener at their tailors, Kingsmans, to avoid drawing attention, only Kitchener and his aide present. Getting wind of a conspiracy to throw Europe into war by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand, Orlando and Conrad join him on his visit to Sarajevo. Conrad manages to prevent a bomb thrown by Gavrilo Princep from killing him, but later the car takes a wrong turn and Princep shoots him. This is from real history; unlike in real history this is bein