“I was in there in my bra and knickers, sweating, thinking, ‘This is insane’, but also going, ‘but it’s work!’” In the hottest bit of the summer, we had to put a stepladder up in our bedroom and throw a 10-tog duvet over it and sit inside it like a tent, with the mic.
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“There were actors all over London desperately trying to buy the right mic and software so that they could record at home.
It has been the only work available during the pandemic. Hamilton has two young sons herself, and also recorded a voice-over for a documentary about Diana this year. I certainly think I sympathise more with the Royal family than I did before I played that role.” On Harry, she adds: “I don’t think you can underestimate the trauma for those two boys of losing their mum in the way they did.” “You basically sacrifice any kind of choice of how you’re going to live your life. The Crown also gave her an invaluable insight into the institution. She wouldn’t call herself a monarchist, either, although she says, the older she gets – she’s 49 – she notices “how you get more and more emotional about anything in your life that is a constant”. She’s playful and pixie-like (though I’m sure she won’t like that description). “She was of that generation where you still didn’t show your private life to the public.” Hamilton, I should add, is not regal in person, even via the odd formality of a video call. “I imagine she’d have been pretty shocked,” she eventually decides. I’ve just asked the actress who played the much-loved royal in the first two series of Netflix’s The Crown to pronounce on Prince Harry’s decision to leave the family firm, and wondered what his great grandmother would have advised? ‘My God, I can’t speak for the Queen Mother,” says Victoria Hamilton.
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