Ayesha Hazarika
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)I’ve been pondering why I’ve become so fond of the Queen. I was never one to fawn over the monarchy growing up — apart from when Fergie married Andrew because I loved her red hair and felt Anne of Green Gables had joined the royal family. That went well.
There’s no doubt that The Crown — particularly Claire Foy’s brilliant performance — made me see the Queen in a new light and made me think about her as a young woman, all the pressure she was under, how she didn’t flap about, pulled up her big monarch pants and got on with it. In fact, she suddenly rather reminded me of my own mum.
