Relative Values starring Julie Andrews

Some spoilers within. Relative Values is one of Julie Andrew’s movies that I somehow missed seeing until very recently. Made in 2000 from the Noël Coward play of the same name. Set in the 1950s we are in the same world as Howard’s End and Gosford Park where we find one woman, Julie Andrews, living in a vast sprawling estate surrounded by an endless array of servants. Chief among these servants is the Butler, played brilliantly by Stephen Fry who appears to be born to play a know-it-all Butler. It’s possible that this would have been a lot funnier if…

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