Series · Romance, Drama · 2021 · TV-MA

Young Royals: parents' guide

15+our pick

Best for ages 15 and up. Rated TV-MA.

A tender, slow-burning Swedish drama about a romance between a prince and a scholarship student, best for mid-teens watching with a parent. The love story includes several sex scenes with moaning and some rear nudity, plus a girl touching herself, but nothing graphic. A central plot has a classmate secretly film the couple having sex and leak the video, which raises questions about consent and privacy. Expect frequent f-words in subtitles, heavy drinking, a character hooked on ADHD medication who sells pills, hazing, a shotgun threat, and grief over a sibling's sudden death. One boy's father died by suicide, and a girl feels her mother's pressure about her body.

What's in it

Violence

Moderate

Punches and a head-butt, a cruel hazing ritual in which a boy is tied up, drenched and made to drink classmates' spit, and a scene where a teen points a shotgun at a classmate's face and fires into the air. No one is badly hurt.

Language

Strong

Frequent f-words in the subtitles and dub, plus milder words like hell and damn. Swearing comes up in most episodes, especially during fights and parties.

Sex and nudity

Moderate

Teens hook up often, with moaning, caressing and making out, and sex is shown with male buttocks visible but no explicit nudity. A girl touches herself while looking at a photo. A sex video secretly filmed through a window is leaked to the whole school.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Strong

Teens drink until they vomit and stagger. One character is hooked on ADHD medication, fakes symptoms seeking a prescription and is pushed into selling pills to pay a debt; the prince uses drugs at a party, and a student is expelled for possession.

Scary or intense scenes

Moderate

The crown prince dies suddenly in a car accident, leaving his family grieving, and the queen later takes leave for depression. A cousin's father died by suicide before the story begins. Hazing, the shotgun scene, panic attacks and the leaked video carry real weight.

Sensitive topics

  • Addiction
  • Bullying
  • Suicide
  • Death of a parent

Worth talking about

Wilhelm has to decide whether to admit he is in the leaked video. Who should control a private moment, and why is sharing one without consent so harmful?

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Wikipedia, readysteadycut.com, mediaversityreviews.com, attitude.co.uk, gaytimes.com. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.