The Crown's William, Harry and Kate on their royal roles: 'You're asked if you're ready for your life to change'
by Maddy Mussen
Dec 03, 2023
3 minutes
In March last year, Ed McVey and Meg Bellamy had the first taste of what it was like to walk in the shoes of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The two actors, then unknown, had been cast as the royal pair in Netflix blockbuster The Crown and as they filmed around St Andrews, the long lens snappers arrived.
“We were getting papped all the time,” McVey says. It became clear their lives were about to change.
As the photographs circulated news sites, and readers piled in with their verdict on the casting, Bellamy remembers learning
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