Lesley Manville

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<em>The Crown</em>'s Lesley Manville just missed seeing ... (EW.com)

The Phantom Thread and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris star met Prince Charles (now King Charles III) when she was appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company in ...

The fifth season of The Crown launches Nov. [The Crown](https://ew.com/tv/the-crown-season-5-cover-story-charles-diana-divorce/) cast, past and present, [Lesley Manville](https://ew.com/person/lesley-manville/) has personal knowledge of the royal family. "I knew him a little bit before, and then we were thrown together and had to learn to dance together and all of that," says the actress of Dalton. And while Manville never met [Princess Margaret](https://ew.com/tv/2019/10/07/the-crown-helena-bonham-carter-princess-margaret-psychic/), the royal family member she is playing on seasons 5 and 6 of The Crown, the actress has the best story about almost meeting the Queen's sister. "I'd just had my son, and [Bowie] said, 'Look, come over to my villa for a holiday whilst you've got the new baby and everything.' I was staying in Mustique at David Bowie's house and I then had to come home because I wasn't well. Manville and her then-husband Gary Oldman visited the island in the late '80s at a time when both David Bowie and Mick Jagger had residences on Mustique.

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'The Crown' star Lesley Manville says she missed a drum solo by ... (Yahoo News)

According to Manville, she missed out on Princess Margaret playing drums with Mick Jagger. "The Crown" actress Lesley Manville missed meeting the royal she ...

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'The Crown' star Lesley Manville missed Princess Margaret's drum ... (INSIDER)

Manville told Entertainment Weekly about the missed connection on the island of Mustique in the 80s, one of Margaret's favorite vacation spots.

"[It was] something she'd never had in her life," Glenconner told the outlet. The Caribbean island is a popular vacation spot amongst celebrities, and one of Princess Margaret's favorites, [according to Town and Country Magazine.](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a30139905/princess-margaret-mustique-island-home/) Yeah, but it didn't happen I'm afraid because I got poorly and had to come home, which is rather annoying," Manville shared. [Marie Claire reported](https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/reports/princess-margaret-mustique-677261) that the Queen's sister was known for her partying habits on the remote Caribbean island. [Entertainment Weekly](https://ew.com/tv/the-crown-lesley-manville-princess-margaret-drums-mick-jagger/) that she and her then-husband Gary Oldman were vacationing on the island at the same time as [Princess Margaret](https://www.insider.com/photos-of-queen-elizabeth-and-princess-margaret-2022-9) in the late 80s. "The Crown" actress Lesley Manville missed meeting the royal she would later portray while vacationing in Mustique in the 80s.

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