Golden Globe-winning actress Olivia Colman, aka Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown, says it’s “bizarre” that Australians love the queen so much.
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In a new interview with the Daily Telegraph this morning, Colman (Fleabag, The Favourite), who plays the Queen in The Crown’s four seasons, revealed that she finds it rather baffling that Australians are such fanatics for the royal family.
“It is a bit bizarre the Queen is still your head of state,” she told the outlet.
“In Britain, growing up with them always there, you don’t really consider them. It’s like, if you live in Sydney, you probably don’t go to the Opera House.”
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“I don’t go to all the incredible things in London because they’re there. And it’s the same with the royal family – they were always there so you don’t think about them. I think for people outside of the UK, they’re a much bigger deal. But I could be wrong about that!”
Earlier this month, the world grew fanatically invested in the British royal family gossip after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a series of allegations about the treatment from the royal family institution towards them and their son, Archie, in an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Most alarmingly, Meghan claimed that the palace was allegedly “worried” about the colour of Archie’s skin.
Even then, it seems that Australians are not all in support of becoming part of the republic.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a new poll surveying 1222 people found that only a third of Aussies are in favour of the country becoming a republic – with two fifths of those surveyed opposed.
The Crown is a Netflix series about the life and story of Queen Elizabeth II. True to the name, it stars a cast of acting royalty, from Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies, to name a few.
The critically-acclaimed show weaves together real-life moments in history – like a young Queen Elizabeth (Claire Foy) dancing with Ghanian President Kwame Nkrumah in 1961 – and fictional events to create a phenomenal royal experience.
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