English trout fisher Rudolf Rassendyll is about the lone tourer not come for the enthronement of Central-European male monarch Rudolf V at Strelsau, but happen to be a distant relation and is approach on history of their canning resemblance to stand up in for the drunken male monarch, in order to forestall his covetous stepbrother Michael, who arrange spike his vino to prehend the throne when the reputedly to a lesser extent so duteous Rudolf stay off. The ceremonial travel good, and he get introduce with the capture royal bride, related to princess Flavia, but subsequently the male monarch is establish to be kidnap; he must go on the parody and one time the concealment topographic point, the palace of Zenda, is establish is involve in the battle between political party for control over Rudolf V, his throne and his bride, for which a formidable 3rd campaigner, Michael’s unpatriotic co-conspirator Prince Rupert of Hentzau, was wait in the curtain.