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Olivia Coleman will replace Claire Foy to play Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown.

Foy, who played the Queen in the first two series and won a Golden Globe for the part, has been judged too youthful to take the role into the 1960s.

Marion Bailey played the Queen in Handbagged, a play about the relationship between the monarch and Margaret Thatcher.

She told the World at One about the challenge of taking on the role.

(Photo: Queen Elizabeth II. Credit: Getty Images)