A Christmas Prince
When it number to cozy Christmas rom - coms , Netflix is the streaming world ’s answer to the Hallmark Channel , as every holiday time of year sees the platform offering a bigger selection of titles . 2024 was a streamer year for them , with us getting Lindsay Lohan ’s prideful take to NetflixChristmas romance movies , as she followed up 2022’sFalling for ChristmaswithOur Little Secret . Lohan’sMean Girlsco - star and perennial Hallmark direct peeress Lacey Chabert also got in on the Netflix holiday playfulness withHot Frosty . Other 2024 Christmas romance titles on the streamer includedThe Merry GentlemenandMeet Me Next Christmas .
Yes , Netflix has been in the holiday fixed storage - com game for a long time , date back to 2017 and its initiative offering in the genre , A Christmas Prince . The wizard pic sees an American journalist post to Aldovia to get the inside scoop on the fancied country ’s natty prince . Naturally , sparks fell , and the two fall top dog over heels for each other . Two sequel followed , A Christmas Prince : The Royal Wedding(2018 ) andA Christmas Prince : The Royal Baby(2019).Even though it ’s been almost six years since the last movie , we holiday romantics are wondering if there ’s any chance forum Christmas Prince 4 .
A Christmas Prince 4 Is Not Confirmed
It’s Not Likely To Happen
Netflix has give no meter reading that they project to take back to the whimsical reality of Aldovia , and , at the risk of sounding like a Scrooge , I think their quiet speaks volumes and thatA Christmas Prince 4is improbable to happen . The first threeChristmas Princemovies were released like clockwork during the holiday seasons of 2017 , 2018 , and 2019 , soif a quaternary film was indeed planned , it likely would have make out out in 2020 . Maybe 2021 , due to the COVID-19 pandemic . And , as we discourse , it ’s not like Netflix is shying off from the vacation love story genre . If anything , they ’re doubling down .
Netflix has created its own Christmas cinematic universe with ten films that cite each other , but are the moving picture actually in the same universe ?
There ’s also the fact thattheAChristmas Princefranchise has seen diminishing returns from a critical standpoint . The first film earned a respectable 73 % on Rotten Tomatoes , withThe Royal Weddingplummeting to 50 % andThe Royal Babyreceiving a paltry 36 % . The collector site ’s hearing scores were overall even speculative , with 49 % , 37 % , and 40 % , severally . Granted , critics are often inexplicably abrasive on the rom - com genre , and RT ’s audience tons often see female person - conduct moving picture fare poorly .
A Christmas PrinceRotten Tomatoes Scores
Tomatometer ( critic )
Popcornmeter ( Audience )
A Christmas Prince(2017 )
73 %
49 %
A Christmas Prince : The Royal Wedding(2018 )
50 %
37 %
A Christmas Prince : The Royal Baby(2019 )
36 %
40 %
Still , one rationality forthe lack ofA Christmas Prince 4could be thatthere ’s just nowhere to go with the story . If the first three movies see Amber ( Rose McIver ) and Richard ( Ben Lamb ) falling in love , getting married , and get their first child , what ’s next ? I suppose I can verbalize for holiday love story fans when I say that the last affair we want is to see their matrimony in jeopardy . If a fourth picture show is going to bump , it should be an exciting yet escapist story , and maybe the writers just have n’t come up with anything .
A Christmas Prince 4 Cast
Rose McIver Says She’d Come Back
Even if Netflix wanted to makeA Christmas Prince 4 , the whole thing would hinge on whether they could get the original cast to regress . WithA Christmas Prince 3releasing back in 2019 , six years is a longsighted sentence in Hollywood , and the cast may have actuate on . conduct Ben Lamb and Rose McIver have both had late succeeder in television with respective roles onThe Gilded AgeandGhosts . However , even though it may be a pipe dream , McIver divulged toVarietythat she would love to return to theChristmas Princeuniverse :
I ’m still knocking on their threshold . I ’m care , ' Guys , I ’m quick . I want to go back . ' I love that chemical group of masses . When I knead with them , we had really special times together . I love Romania , where we filmed . I ’m always down to keep that narration going . I think it ’s one of the funniest franchises I could ever be part of , and I had such a good time make it . So maybe down the descent . From your lip to God ’s ears .
With any luck , McIver can galvanize her fellowChristmas Princecastmates into putting a germ in Netflix ’s ear that they ’re quick for more . Of course , Lamb would call for to return as Amber ’s husband , King Richard of Aldovia . And inNetflix’sA Christmas Princeuniverse , family line is everything , so a fourth film would need to include Richard ’s mother , Queen Helena ( Alice Krige ) , and his young baby , Princess Emily ( Honor Kneafsey ) , both of whom have appear in all three previous movies .
A Christmas Prince 4 Story Details
Rose McIver Has Plenty Of Ideas
With no confirmed plan forA Christmas Prince 4 , any mind for what its story could be about is pure speculation . However , Rose McIver appears quick and eager to pitch some mind to Netflix . In the same conversation withVariety , where she allege she ’s ready to go back , McIver joke , " A Christmas Second Royal Baby ! " as a possible name and premise for the 4th movie . However , the actress had some even better ideas that she share withVulture :
A prescribed history about how we ’re able-bodied to subdue a slump in a union by postulate for help . It would be great . [ Laughs.]What ’s more likely is something about Princess Emily and how she ’s coming of age . Should witness demand it , there ’s a circumstances of different ways the film could go .
A Christmas fixed storage - com about a married couple slump is definitely a novel thought , as many romance , vacation or not , are centered on new and young beloved . However , that concept may be a little too real for consultation who are await for some escapist holiday merriment . Plus , we already got to watch Amber and Richard get their mirthfully ever after — please do n’t take that away from us !
Honor Kneafsey steals every scene she ’s in as Richard ’s magic small sister , and though she started the enfranchisement as a shaver , the actress is 20 years older now , the sodding long time to lead a holiday romance pic .
But I really care McIver ’s idea to refocus the franchise on Princess Emily . Honor Kneafsey steals every view she ’s in as Richard ’s wizardly little sis , and though she start the franchise as a tyke , the actress is 20 years old now , the perfect age to lead a vacation romance film . Netflix , if you ’re read this , respond Rose McIver ’s knock at your door , listen to her estimation , and makeA Christmas Prince 4happen .
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