The ‘Queen’ as you’ve never seen her!
(And yes, that really IS her)
DARINGLY dressed in a red leather mini-dress and showing off a spiky haircut, she looks the very picture of health.
But Claire Foy has revealed she was recently diagnosed with ‘fatigue’ after the birth of her daughter and split from her husband.
The actress, 34, was forced to take a holiday as she juggled her Hollywood career with being a new mother, leaving her ‘body paying the price’.
Miss Foy, who played Queen Elizabeth II in the first two series of Netflix hit The Crown, spent six weeks recuperating after suffering from flu and exhaustion – which was eventually diagnosed as a combination of infection and fatigue.
She has a three-year-old daughter, Ivy Rose, with her actor husband Stephen Campbell Moore, who she announced she had separated from in February.
Speaking to American Vogue, she said: ‘ You can keep yourself going for a long time, and that’s what I’ve pretty much been doing since I gave birth. My body has paid the price.’ The mother of one, who stars on the cover of the November issue and appears in an accompanying light-hearted video online, is seen dressed in several androgynous ensembles – including an oversized black leather jacket and matching dress, and short mini-dress which features a provocatively high split.
In the interview, Miss Foy also reveals how Netflix enabled her to work when her daughter was just four months old. She said: ‘No one had ever said to me that I could ask for anything before, that I could say that I needed a trailer with a bed in it. That was completely new to me.’
But Miss Foy said she ‘ had to understand that someone else would be giving [Ivy Rose] a bath and putting her to bed, which was breaking my heart’.
Miss Foy, who lives in a terraced brick house in Wood Green, North Royal role: In The Crown, and above, in the Vogue video London, is selling the home she shared with Campbell Moore due to their split.
However, it appears their relationship is still amicable as Miss Foy referred to him as her ‘best friend’. She said: ‘I’m incredibly lucky that I have a child with someone I deeply love and who is my best friend.’ Speaking about Campbell Moore being diagnosed with a benign brain tumour while she filmed series two of the Netflix drama, Miss Foy said: ‘That’s Stephen’s thing to talk about, really, but he’s doing really well, which is a miracle.’
The star, who won her first Emmy award in September for her role in The Crown, also appeared online in a Vogue video where she pokes fun at herself as she tries to ditch her regal look. Miss Foy is seen sitting regally in a Chanel pink tweed skirt suit on the phone. In another scene, she wears a headscarf and trench coat as she takes snaps with an award, and is also filmed struggling to take inventive selfies.
In the next series of the drama, Olivia Colman, 44, succeeds Miss Foy, while Tobias Menzies, also 44, takes over from Matt Smith, 35, as an older Prince Philip. Miss Foy’s latest film First Man, based on the moon landing, is out t tomorrow.
November’s US S Vogue, right, is on n sale from Tuesday.
‘I kept myself going for a long time’