“It must’ve been a ghastly life,” Frears said of the Queen’s lifelong responsibilities.

It is a separate thing."

“Stephen looks at people as human beings whoever they are, wherever they are,” Coogan said.

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“Which is what a good dramatist should do humanize people.”

“I wouldn’t want to have been the Queen,” he reflected.

“It must’ve been a ghastly life.”

“We mourn a woman who, with or without the crown, was the epitome of nobility.”