The Runaway Princess – 1928 | 82mins | Drama | B&W – Silent

Plot Synopsis

Princess Priscilla objects to being betrothed to the Crown Prince of Savona, whom she has never seen, and runs away to London with her professor. During her stay there, she is followed everywhere by a mysterious and handsome stranger. She is intrigued, but the stranger refuses to reveal his identity. At length, the princess’s money runs out and she accepts a job as assistant to a fashionable Bond Street milliner. During her calls on clients, she becomes the innocent accomplice of one of them – a woman at the head of a forgery gang.

Unwittingly, the princess passes forged bank notes for her, and is arrested. The intervention of the mysterious stranger secures her release. He then reveals that he is the Crown Prince she was supposed to marry. Now in love with him Priscilla returns with the Prince to her own country and is married with due splendour. By the time the film was completed talking sequences were added before the film was released to the general public.

Excerpt© ‘Puffin Asquith’ by R.J. Minney.