sentences:  She soon becomes involved with the actions of his teenaged son, King Nicholas, as well as the Queen Mother.A peripheral character, fish-and-chips peddler Ada Cockle, appears to be present solely to entertain the audience with a rousing fifteen-minute rendition of traditional Cockney tunes.Rattigan's play had been staged in London with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, on Broadway with Michael Redgrave and Barbara Bel Geddes, and filmed as "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, so its story was a fairly familiar one.