Moon secrets revealed5/29/2023 ![]() At the manor, she meets Loveday, who gives her more information: Loveday and Sir Benjamin were once engaged until Loveday revealed she was a de Noir Sir Benjamin, furious, broke off the engagement and Loveday ran away. She gives him the key but he reveals that the casket is empty, accusing the Merryweathers of stealing them. Maria realises that the de Noirs stole the casket containing the pearls and the Merryweathers took the key to it.įinding the key in the book's bookmark, Maria sneaks into the fortress, but is spotted by Robin's father Coeur de Noir. Loveday reveals she herself was a Moon Princess, but failed to unite the families and break the curse. Frightened, she runs away and finds a cave inhabited by a woman named Loveday. Maria figures out that the very next full moon will be the 5000th. The Manor's chef Marmaduke tells Maria she is the new Moon Princess, as she can see the unicorn, and only such a one can undo the curse. When Maria finally continues reading the book, she discovers that the two families fought over the pearls and the Moon Princess cursed Moonacre Valley to be plunged into eternal darkness at the rising of the 5000th moon, unless a "pure heart" is heard. ![]() Before they can kidnap her, Sir Benjamin's intimidating black dog, Wrolf, frightens them away. After riding with her uncle, Maria hears a distressed cry and sneaks into the forest, where she is surrounded by bandits, including a boy named Robin de Noir. Sir Benjamin warns of bandits and instructs Maria to stay away from the forest and the de Noirs, the rival family. When the princess revealed the pearls, the two families were possessed by greed.įorced to leave her London home, Maria and her governess, Miss Heliotrope, go to stay at Moonacre Manor with her estranged uncle Sir Benjamin Merryweather. At her wedding with a Merryweather, her father, a de Noir, presented the couple with a black lion, while the groom gifted his bride a unicorn. She reads of the first Moon Princess receiving magical pearls from the moon. Maria Merryweather inherits a book after her father's death: The Ancient Chronicles of Moonacre Valley. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2009 by Warner Bros. The film was directed by Gábor Csupó and starred Dakota Blue Richards in the leading role and with Ioan Gruffudd, Tim Curry, Natascha McElhone and Juliet Stevenson in supporting roles. ![]() The Secret of Moonacre is a 2008 fantasy film loosely based on the 1946 novel The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. ![]()
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