Set during the Age
of Enlightenment — a movement slow to spark in conservative Denmark — A Royal Affair dramatizes the
love triangle that emerges
among a neglected queen, her mentally ill king, and the king's politically progressive personal physician.
A
love triangle among social - climbing riffraff and upper - class beauties (call it «The Thief, the Pickpocket, and the Perfume Executive»), with Herbert Marshall torn between the beautiful Miriam Hopkins and the stunning Kay Francis, Trouble in Paradise has the great advantage
of being made before the Code.