If not Wilton, then who? The aforementioned Dame Julie Walters, would also be perfect, as would Dame Judi Dench, though she already has 10 years on the character. How about the much younger option of The Crown’s Imelda Staunton aged up? Being played by the same actor as Queen Elizabeth II would no doubt tickle Joyce…
Elizabeth Best Dame Helen Mirren is a lot of people’s first thought for the role of wily pragmatist Elizabeth, a women of secrets who takes rare advantage of her new-found ‘invisibility’ in old age to get up to all kinds of trouble. Read More...
Royal fans have sent their well wishes to the Princess of Wales after her husband’s mystery absence from a Royal engagement for ‘personal reasons’.
Prince William had been due to attend a memorial service for the late King Constantine of Greece – who was his godfather – but pulled out at the last minute.
It mean Queen Camilla was the most senior member of the Royal Family in attendance at the service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, as King Charles was also absent as his cancer treatment continues. Read More...
Adventurous Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) returns with her sister Alison to the bustling English seaside resort town, where Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies imagines how Jane Austen might have continued the Regency novel she left unfinished in 1817. Will Charlotte and her heiress friend, Georgianna Lambe, have better luck this year finding suitable husbands among the regiment of soldiers stationed in town? Enjoy non-stop intrigue, scandal and romance, from bedrooms and beaches to the Sanditon ball. Read More...
