It’s Christmas Eve and Princess Diana (played by Kristen Stewart) arrives late at Sandringham for festive celebrations with the Royal Family. Her marriage and mental health are in crisis, and she is clearly not in the mood for a party . . .

Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) moves from Cornwall to the capital to study at the London School of Fashion. After arriving, she starts to have night-time visions of Sandy (played by Anya Taylor-Joy), a beautiful starlet from the 1960s whose dreams of making it big lead her down a dark path . . .

Aretha Franklin (played by Jennifer Hudson) had extraordinary musical talent, but her career was slow to start as she struggled to define her own sound, under the influence of her father and her domineering husband.

It’s the Cold War and Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze), is a high-ranking Russian, who starts sending important information to British and US intelligence services. To avoid detection, they recruit a British businessman called Greville Wynne (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) to act as a courier.