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Imagine a World Run By a Rather Nice Famous Woman

by Staff | 2015 | Stylist UK

This queen would anoint Monday as “Make an Effort Day.” I’d like to get the week off to a great start. Everyone would have to dress up and have breakfast together in the royal parks, and all musicians would be ordered to form bands and orchestras. Dancing would be encouraged before, during and after breakfast.

My husband [actor Damian Lewis] would be my king but with restricted powers. Anything I overruled him on would have to be obeyed. It would be a reign of terror over him!

Helen McCrory: “What I love about travel is the freedom. Anything that gets in the way of that is missing the point”

How often do you travel?

As an actress, it is feast or famine when it comes to holidays. I have two children and try to get three holidays a year with them. Last year, we did a weekend in Rome, where it snowed for the first time in 30 years. Then my husband, Damian [Lewis, the actor], worked in Mantua for a week, so we went to Venice for the weekend and visited the Italian countryside for a week. It was bliss.

We also visited Mauritius during the hurricane season, which was actually OK. When it rained, we’d stay inside and watch the geckoes and then walk out afterwards to see bright flowers and rainbows. I was brought up in very exotic places, as my father was a diplomat. By the time I was nine I had lived all over the world, from Oslo to Nigeria and Zanzibar. As a child, I used to think the most exotic place was Cardiff, where my grandparents lived, and where I first saw snow.

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Imagine a World Run By a Rather Nice Famous Woman

Helen McCrory’s Travelling Life

Helen McCrory: “What I love about travel is the freedom. Anything that gets in the way of that is missing the point”