PRIYANKA

UNDER HER WATCH PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS HAS MADE A LIFE IN AMERICA BUT INDIA STILL BURNS BRIGHT IN HER HEART, NOW MORE THAN EVER.

It’s a public holiday and Priyanka Chopra Jonas is working.

Actually, they call them bank holidays in London where she is based, just four weeks into an epic nine-month shoot for Citadel , the multimillion-dollar espionage television series that Chopra Jonas is leading, alongside Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci. She’s been living in London since November, in Robbie Williams’s old house, a neat Notting Hill hideaway with a sun-drenched backyard and plenty of room for guests, which is just as well, because since she relocated a revolving door of family have shuffled in and out of quarantine in order to visit her. At one point, her mother Madhu was in residence – together, they binged Bridgerton . “Like everyone in the world,” Chopra Jonas deadpans. (For the record: Madhu soundly approves of the bodice-shredder. “My mum’s not one to get embarrassed,” Chopra Jonas says. “I’m that person.”)

London is a second home for Chopra Jonas, whose phenomenal global fame is scaffolded with 62 million Instagram followers, more than double the paltry 30 million that her husband Nick Jonas boasts. It was in London that an 18-year-old Chopra Jonas represented India at the 2000 Miss World pageant – and won. Not that she has been able to see much of the city on this trip. London has been in various stages of lockdown for months, and between filming and , a lush little. “I was just missing Paris,” she sighs.