在这部小公子特洛男爵剧情片中,年轻的Cedric和他的母亲住在纽约市。他的父亲早逝。原来他的父亲是英国的皇族,因为家族不同意婚礼所以他们一家才到美国。但是,在英国这里,皇族最后一个男宗不幸在意外中去世,变成Cedric是英国皇族的最后一个男丁,称为小公子特洛男爵。他和他的母亲被老皇帝叫回去英国住,Cedric是否适应这艰苦的皇族生活呢?
Young Cedric Errol lives with his widowed mother in New York City. Cedric's late father was a son of the Earl of Dorincourt, but the Earl had objected strongly to his son's marriage, and thus has long been estranged from Cedric and his mother. But when the Earl's only surviving son dies in a riding accident, Cedric suddenly becomes Lord Fauntleroy, the Earl's heir. Cedric and his mother travel to England, where they must overcome the Earl's hard feelings about the past, as well as some unexpected obstacles.