In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor host the King and Queen of England for a weekend at the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park on Hudson, in upstate New York – the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. With Britain facing imminent war with Germany, the Royals are desperately looking to FDR for support. But international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR’s domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal weekend an unforgettable one. Seen through the eyes of Daisy, Franklin’s neighbor and intimate, the weekend produces not only a special relationship between two great nations, but, for Daisy, a deeper understanding of the mysteries of love and friendship. Murray certainly looks like he’ll make an interesting President, and won’t just rest on being Bill Murray, which he’s done for the past few years (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
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