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Hyde Park on Hudson is a 2012 British biographical comedy-drama film directed by Roger Michell. The film stars Bill Murray and Laura Linney as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley, respectively. It was based on Margaret Suckley's private journals and diaries discovered after Suckley's death,[3][4][5] about her love affair with and intimate details about President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In June 1939, King George VI (then separately but simultaneously monarch of Canada, the United Kingdom, and four other countries) and his wife, Queen Elizabeth made a visit to the United States as king and queen of Canada,[6][7][8][9][10] during which they stayed at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's country estate in Hyde Park, New York. At the same time, the President was growing closer to his sixth cousin[11] and eventual mistress, Margaret Suckley.[12] Roosevelt hoped he could use the visit to, in part, bolster American support for the United Kingdom on the eve of World War II, which broke out less than three months later.