Lesley Manville

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.