Nurse Anna departs for her family home for Christmas and comes across a mother, adult son and his aide, stranded by an approaching New England winter storm. Without access to their arranged transportation, Anna offers them accommodations at her family Inn. There, she discovers that she brought a Royal Family to her home town and holiday festivities that once had all the loving touch of her late mother.

While the Queen is busy enjoying the people she meets over their time snowbound, the Crown Prince has his royal responsibilities on his mind and writing a speech that he must deliver to his Parliament on a deadline. Finding him troubled by his circumstances, Anna introduces him to different aspects of her family holiday traditions as his tensions lessen and participates in events that royal staff had done for them. Over just those few days, each finds themselves denying their attraction and comfort they find in each other's company.

When the weather breaks and the Royal Family returned home, the Prince reviews the letters the late King had written for inspiration for his speech and brings the last letter to his mother, discovering that they had been in Anna's care even before they met! What he knew in his heart at the Inn, he now knows for sure as he returned to Anna to dance with her at the Christmas Ball! Some movies deserve a 10 for the way their ending might start a new beginning!