Prince William and Kate Middleton's three children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - are likely to hold impressive titles like the Prince of Wales or the Princess Royal as they grow up.
09.11.2022 - 21:37 / usmagazine.com
Keeping this one to himself. Dominic West is friends with Prince Harry, but he decided against asking his pal for advice about playing King Charles III on The Crown.
“I didn’t think it was appropriate to call him up and ask him for tips,” the Wire alum, 53, joked to Entertainment Tonight at the season 5 premiere in London on Tuesday, November 8. The U.K. native added that he actually hasn’t spoken to the Duke of Sussex, 38, in “many years,” though they were friendly in the past.
“We did walk to the South Pole together with a lot of wounded soldiers, so I got to know him pretty well,” West explained, referring to a charity event the pair did together in 2013. The duo participated in the Walking With the Wounded, joining an expedition through Antarctica with injured military service people.
“He was very much part of the team,” the Tomb Raider actor said of the royal at a press conference in January 2014. “He seemed to specialize in building latrines. He built this incredible castellated structure with blocks to keep out the wind, and it even had a [toilet] roll holder.”
West is a new cast member of The Crown, making his debut as Charles, 63, in season 5, which premiered on Wednesday, November 9. The Affair alum replaced Josh O’Connor, who played a younger version of the former Prince of Wales in seasons 3 and 4.
Last year, Harry admitted that he has seen the Netflix series, which he thinks allows viewers to get a taste of royal life even though it’s fictionalized. “It gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that,” the Invictus Games founder explained during a February 2021 appearance on The Late Late Show With James
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Acknowledging the king! Dominic West ran into Queen Consort Camilla while filming The Crown — and she greeted the actor in a surprising way.
The Crown, Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles has demonstrated a few times that she seems to like—or at least, not mind—seeing herself and her loved ones on the screen.Dominic West, the English actor who will play Prince-now-King Charles III in of the series, recently revealed that when he talked to Parker Bowles last (at a party in 2021), she called him “Your Majesty,” a subdued wink-and-a-nod typical of Brits. Speaking to the , West also recounted that he offered to resign his post as ambassador for The Prince's Trust, one of Charles' charities, in case the role was seen as a conflict of interest.“You do what you like, you’re an actor. It’s nothing to do with us,” West said, summarizing a letter from the King's personal secretary.