‘The Royals’ Season Two Premiere Date Announced

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William Moseley, Creator Mark Schwahn and Elizabeth Hurley (Photo by: Kevin Plunkett / E! Entertainment)

E! will be bringing back The Royals for a second season starting on November 15, 2015 at 10pm ET/PT, as just announced by the network. E!’s original scripted series stars Elizabeth Hurley, William Moseley, and Alexandra Park as the hard-partying fictional British Royal family.

Season two will also feature Tom Austen, Oliver Milburn, Jake Maskall, Lydia Rose Bewley, Andrew Bicknell, Victoria Ekanoye, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Simon Thomas, and Scott Maslen. And Dame Joan Collins is confirmed to reprise her role as Grand Duchess of Oxford for four episodes of the second season.

Mark Schwahn writes, directs and executive produces the dramatic series, with Brian Robbins and Joe Davola also involved as executive producers.

The Plot:

The second season picks up eight weeks after the tragic murder of King Simon (Vincent Regan) by an unknown assailant. Cyrus, Simon’s arrogant brother, has taken the throne after deeming the Prince and Princess illegitimate, with the help of the Queen to fabricate the paternity results.

While Cyrus is convinced the Queen is on his side, her majesty has her own agenda in mind: change the succession of the Royal Family and make the power shift to the Queen if anything should happen to yet another King. Meanwhile, Liam vows to bring his father’s murderer to justice and teams up with an unlikely ally to do so, the duplicitous bodyguard Jasper who had been relieved from his duties after sleeping with both the Princess and the Queen, and had once been considered a prime suspect in the King’s attack that led to his death.

However, the two young men, who are both working to mend their respective broken hearts, have bonded over their mutual concern for the Princess’ well-being and seek to bring a common enemy to justice.

While King Cyrus struggles to win over a country of people who despise him due to his inability to relate and general disdain for common society, Eleanor sinks further into despair as she searches to have a real connection with anyone despite her seemingly fairytale life as a princess. Her bodyguard blackmailed her and slept with her mother, her brother is locked in a vengeful tunnel vision, her mother just revealed her father isn’t who she thought, the new King hates her, and the only person who ever believed in her was murdered with the last words he spoke to her being of his disappointment.

Now, Eleanor finds solace in excessive amounts of booze, drugs and random sex, while still trying to navigate through the murky waters of real romance. Not since Marie Antoinette has there been so much anarchy in the monarchy.