Former head girl to make TV debut as Kate
Middleton in The Crown
Newcomer Meg Bellamy will play a young Duchess of
Cambridge alongside Ed McVey and Rufus Kampa as Prince William
Christy
Cooney
Sat 3 Sep
2022 12.43 BST
A young
actor has landed her first professional role playing Kate Middleton in hit
Netflix series The Crown.
Meg
Bellamy, 19, a former head girl at St Crispin’s school in Wokingham, Berkshire,
was picked after submitting a self-taped audition after a casting call put out
on social media.
Also making
their screen debuts will be Ed McVey, 21, and Rufus Kampa, 16, who will both
play young versions of the Duchess of Cambridge’s now-husband, Prince William.
All three
will appear in the show’s sixth and final series, which will begin shooting
later this year.
The Crown
is a historical drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, with the
sixth series expected to depict the years after the death of Diana, Princess of
Wales in 1997.
Kampa will
reportedly play Prince William in the immediate aftermath of his mother’s
death, while McVey and Bellamy will play the duke and duchess during their time
as students at the University of St Andrews, where they met in 2001.
Bellamy is
understood to have won the role only months after leaving St Crispin’s, a
comprehensive, and has no professional acting experience, the Daily Telegraph
reported.
She was
reportedly awarded an A* in her drama A-level and starred in a number of school
productions, and is also said to have worked as a performer at Legoland in
nearby Windsor.
McVey
graduated from the Drama Centre London in 2021 and has worked as an understudy
in the play Camp Siegfried at the Old Vic, but is yet to appear on screen.
Kampa has
appeared in a number of stage productions, most recently as the title character
in a musical version of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 & 3/4s, and
as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!
Other stars
to have appeared in The Crown include Olivia Colman, who played the Queen; Matt
Smith, who played Prince Philip; and Helena Bonham Carter, who played Princess
Margaret.
The fifth
series, due to air in November, will include a whole new cast, with Imelda
Staunton as the Queen, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, and Lesley Manville as
Princess Margaret.
The series
will also feature Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as
Diana, Princess of Wales.
Asked about
the show last year, Prince Harry described it as “fictional” but “loosely based
on the truth”.
“It gives
you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, the pressures of putting duty and
service above family and everything else, what can come from that,” he said.
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