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A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding

2018 film directed by John Schultz

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ55762014 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding is a 2018 Christmas romantic comedy film directed by John Schultz and written by Nathan Atkins, based on characters created by Karen Schaler. The film stars Rose McIver, Ben Lamb, Sarah Douglas, Alice Krige and Tahirah Sharif. It is a sequel to A Christmas Prince and was followed by A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby.

It was released on November 30, 2018, by Netflix.

Plot

One year after the events of the first film, Amber and Richard are still happily engaged. The news media company she worked for went out of business, so her friends are unemployed. At Christmastime, Amber and her father Rudy travel to Aldovia to plan her wedding. She continues to blog about royal life with Richard.

Amber becomes overwhelmed with the dictatorial traditions of royal protocol and lack of control over her own wedding, which is controlled by the flamboyant designer Sahil and Mrs. Averill.

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The public source identifies “A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding” as 2018 film directed by John Schultz. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Christmas, Prince and Royal.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2018. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Christmas, Prince and Royal providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55762014. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.