An actress said Meghan Markle should play herself if The Crown series returns (Image: ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)
An actress has said should play herself if The Crown returns for another series.
Meg Ballamy, who played Kate Middleton in the sixth season of The Crown on , that only Meghan, 43, would be suitable to play her own character in the popular series that dramatises the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
This comes after Meg played Kate in the latest series, which showed a young Princess of Wales during her university days when she first met . The entire series is a drama focused on the Royal Family, beginning with when the late Queen was crowned.
When asked about The Crown and who should play Meghan, who quit royal life with husband in 2020, Meg said only the former Suits star would do herself “justice” on screen.
As reported in Meg told Eden at the Royal Albert Hall: “Only Meghan could do justice. Meghan is a great actress.”
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The actress then went on to say: “Kate is awesome.”
The last series of The Crown was released in 2023, with the last episode looking at the events of 2005. A seventh series is not expected to hit screens any time soon.
The show’s creator and writer Peter Morgan told ‘s : “I’ve worked on the show every single day, including bank holidays and Christmases for ten years.”
He continued: “I’m proud of having got to the end and having done what I said I would do. “[It] became clear … that this is the perfect time and place to stop. I’m grateful to and Sony for supporting me in this decision.”
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Meg Ballamy plays a young Kate Middleton in The Crown (Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
One senior royal source one revealed that the late Queen used to watch the show with her son and daughter-in-law Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie.
The : “Edward and Sophie love The Crown.
”It has been a longstanding arrangement that they drive to Windsor at the weekend to join the Queen for an informal supper while watching TV or a film. They have a account and urged her to watch it with them. Happily, she really liked it, although obviously there were some depictions of events that she found too heavily dramatized.”
Despite this, the late Queen was said to not have been a fan of some scenes which were not accurate to real life events.