“I will do my utmost to maintain the very high standard that they set.

Hopefully, I look calm, collected, and capable.

My stomach, meanwhile, is doing somersaults.”

Imelda Staunton on the red carpet

“This isn’t verbatim; this isn’t taken from diaries,” the actress continued.

you could’t know that’s what Margaret and Elizabeth were talking about."

While Staunton is aware that she has to look the part, there’s also a story to tell.

Imelda Staunton on the red carpet

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown