Meg Bellamy exuded glamour in a dazzling gold dress as she attended a Range Rover event at Goodwood House on Saturday night.
The event was held to celebrate five generations of Range Rover at Goodwood’s Studio 54 themed Ball.
The Crown star, 21, who played Kate Middleton in the Netflix show, looked effortlessly stylish in the glitzy garment.
Meg showcased her sensational physique in the glamorous thin-strapped gown as she posed for photos inside the venue.
The actress posed for a stunning snap alongside actress and writer Amelia Gething, 25.
Meg Bellamy, 21, exuded glamour in a dazzling gold dress as she attended a Range Rover event at Goodwood House on Saturday night
The Crown star, who played Kate Middleton in the Netflix show, looked effortlessly stylish in the glitzy garment
The actress posed for a stunning snap alongside actress and writer Amelia Gething, 25
Amelia wore a barely-there pink gown, flashing her whole torso and ample cleavage
Elsewhere at the event, Brigerton Jessica Madsen – who stars as Cressida Cowper in the Netflix show – put on a vibrant display.
The actress wore a tassel gold mini dress, teamed with a faux-fur pink coat and animated pink sunglasses.
Bridgerton star Victor Alli, who plays Hannah Dodds’ on-screen husband, looked dapper in the grey and pink checkered suit.
Meg just finished up starring in A Child of Science, a play directed by Matthew Dunster – a former associate director of Shakespeare’s Globe – at the Bristol Old Vic.
It tells the true story of in vitro fertilisation, and the group of Manchester medics who created it in 1978.
She played the study’s leading nurse, Jean Purdy, opposite Tom Felton as physiologist Robert Edwards.
Before she starred in the Netflix behemoth, she had never worked professionally.
In April 2023, she saw a casting call on Twitter, looking for a ‘budding young actor’ to play a teenage Middleton in The Crown.
Elsewhere at the event, Brigerton Jessica Madsen – who stars as Cressida Cowper in the Netflix show – put on a vibrant display
The actress wore a tassel gold mini dress, teamed with a faux-fur pink coat and animated pink sunglasses
Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese put on a daring display in a plunging black and silver jumpsuit
Bridgerton star Victor Alli, who plays Hannah Dodds’ on-screen husband, looked dapper in the grey and pink checkered suit
Emmanuel Ogunjinmi, Victor Alli and Martins Imhangbe (L-R) posed for a photo
Meg sent a self-tape and the casting directors asked her to audition in person. In June, after several auditions – and having beaten thousands of other potential Kates – Meg was told she was in the final eight and was invited to a cast read-through at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.
That read-through ‘was the best day of my life’, she says. ‘I thought: ‘Even if I don’t get this I’m just so glad I’ve had this experience.’ She got a call from the casting associate Kate Bone four months later on an August day at 11.11am.
There’s a popular theory that 11.11am is a lucky time and people make a wish when the clock strikes it. ‘I don’t know if you believe that sort of thing,’ says Meg, ‘but it was crazy.’
To prepare for The Crown, she watched hours of Kate Middleton footage, studying her mannerisms and voice. ‘I spent so much time ‘with’ her,’ she says. ‘You get this weird parasocial connection.’
It made Meg reassess her previous royal ambivalence. ‘She’s so gracious and wonderful and self-assured. I will always be fond of Kate.’
Meg’s research was so ‘all-consuming’ that after The Crown finished filming, she avoided reading stories about Kate.
‘I’ve tried to put the character behind me. But of course,’ she adds, referring to the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis, ‘I so feel for her and for the family.’
The Crown has won more Emmys than any other Netflix TV show (21 and counting) and by season five had a rumoured budget of £11 million per episode. Meg had daunting preconceptions for the six-month shoot.