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Naomi Clarke

Imelda Staunton on playing the late Queen in The Crown: ‘It felt very present’

Imelda Staunton has said she felt “a bit more pressure” portraying the late Queen in the final episode of The Crown as the scenes felt “very present”.

The veteran actress, 67, portrays the former monarch in the final two series of the hit Netflix royal drama, which dramatises events that occurred within the royal family during the 1990s to the early noughties, including the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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