00:03I personally feel a great sense of responsibility when we're shooting real events, which is why
00:08we do so much research. We're talking about huge scenes that need to be recreated or reimagined.
00:14We try to capture as much of the reality as possible and doing that means that you have to
00:19get all the costumes right, all the uniforms, all the detail. That was really our thought from the
00:24start. We do it as properly as we can because if we didn't do it that well we couldn't tell
00:31our
00:31other stories and see them in their private life. It's a family that is under incredible scrutiny
00:37but of course it's the other scenes that are also fascinating. The scenes really in the bedrooms,
00:42in the quiet rooms, in the places that you would never get access to. And so you do get to
00:46see
00:46behind closed doors very much. It was something that I was really interested in doing because
00:50of the story it had to tell, the sort of the public and the private life. Trying to humanise
00:54the Queen and Margaret and the Queen Mother etc to see how we imagine their private life might be.
01:01It's trying to tell a different story about them. The way Michelle has approached the costumes is just
01:06extraordinary because she's able to design and create costumes that are historically accurate
01:13but also works for the story that you're telling.
01:19We probably made 300, 350 principal costumes and we had over 7,000 extras all of which had between
01:27two and five costumes. So we had a core team of between 35 and 40 people in the costume department
01:35at any time and sometimes that went up to 80 or 100. It's a huge scale and so ambitious but
01:41every possible
01:43angle to everything has been thought about and everyone is so meticulous at their job and so
01:47brilliant at their job. So a lot of the dresses that I wear are replicas of things that she wore.
01:53On the wedding dress we had teams of six people working for six weeks just embroidering the train
01:58and the dress and then we had the coronation dress. It was one of the very few we didn't make.
02:03It was
02:03actually made for an exhibition by Swarovski and in this instance it was screen printed and then
02:10the jewels were heat set. The original would have been embroidered and would have taken many many
02:14hours. We were so fortunate that actually it fitted our queen. The Queen and Philip were celebrities
02:21of their day in such a huge way. They were style icons and I think the fashion of that time
02:27is really cool.
02:28The suits I get to wear are beautifully cut. All the military stuff looks really great
02:33but the girls I think in particular look really brilliant.
02:41Margaret was the biggest fashion icon of the 50s and 60s. She designed her own things and she looked
02:47amazing and she really led waves of fashion. Margaret loved being a fashion icon and had a real flair for
02:54it but I think that was just her character anyway. She's far more creative and aesthetic than Elizabeth.
02:59Margaret was much more open and more daring I think than the Queen. She smoked and she hung out
03:05and she had fun. A bit racy and very different and it starts showing the contrast between the two sisters.
03:14With the costumes the vast majority of them are handmade and designed by Michelle very much in
03:20exploration of the character, very much in service to the narrative. I think her contribution has been
03:27essential to making this look and feel like something you've never seen before.
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