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Evening Standard
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Maddy Mussen

The Crown season six on Netflix: Dominic West is far too sexy to play King Charles

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Dominic West was rather badly miscast as Prince Charles in The Crown. In fact, the two people bear absolutely no resemblance at all. If you locked them in a room of mirrors together for a thousand years, not once would one of them suggest that they may look vaguely similar.

And what an unfortunate predicament, given how we are reminded of it every single time West appears on screen, which is quite a lot. It's only further reinforced by how well Elizabeth Debicki, despite being an Australian of genuine model proportions, slips into the role of Diana, her kohl-lined blue eyes a dead ringer for the Princess of Wales'.

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