The Crown’s Claire Foy gives rare glimpse inside family life with daughter as she talks extravagant Christmas plans

The Crown star Claire Foy has shared her Christmas vacation plans, admitting that she goes “all out,” for her eight-year-old daughter.

Speaking on Good Morning America on Wednesday December 13, 2023, the actress – who stars alongside JamieBell in new film All of Us Strangers – instructed Michael Strahan of her extravagant Christmas plans earlier than joking that it could actually get very exhausting. Watch the video under to see what she needed to say…

Lighting up with pleasure as he requested her what she does for the vacation season, Claire revealed: “I go all out. I do everything: we go ice skating, decorate the tree, caroling – I do everything. 

“I’m very into it after which when Christmas day comes round I’m like ‘I do not like Christmas anymore!’ But I do all of it earlier than [the big day]. I like it, it’s so thrilling.”

Claire has kept her daughter Ivy Rose out of the spotlight but revealed earlier in 2023 that the young girl had a wicked sense of humor, changing their Netflix avatar to her mom’s face. 

“She has found you possibly can have my face [as an avatar] on Netflix, and I didnt know she had accomplished it, and I turned it on and there’s my face, however she known as it ‘nincompoop,’ and I do not assume she had ever known as anybody that however she spelled it completely,” the 39-year-old told The Graham Norton Show. 

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Claire welcomed her daughter in 2015 with ex-husband Stephen Campbell Moore. They married in 2014 however divorced in 2018, a yr after Stephen underwent surgical procedure when medical doctors discovered a benign tumor in his mind. 

Claire performed the late Queen Elizabeth II within the first two seasons of the hit Netflix drama The Crown, and praised bosses for permitting her to deliver her new child child to the set. 

“In what occupation am I allowed to have a toddler, breastfeed my youngster on set and have them say, ‘It’s nice. Good for you. You are working and you’ve got a child?'” she told emmy magazine. “I was very, very fortunate they supported me in doing that. I can’t imagine anything worse than being away from my child for six months.” 

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She returned for a shock look in season 5, which noticed Imelda Staunton take over from Olivia Colman, who portrayed the Queen for season three and 4. Fans had been anticipating to see Imelda’s debut in her position as the Queen within the opening episode of season 5, however had been pleasantly shocked to find the present opened with Claire for a flashback scene. 

The episode included a take a look at the Queen’s beloved ship HMS Britannia and revealed the Queen’s happiness at christening the ship. earlier than the scenes returned to the Nineteen Nineties, the place the ship was in determined want of repairs. 

The royal collection, which aired the primary 4 episodes of its sixth and closing season in November will return to the streaming platform on December 14, 2023, leaping forward to the flip of the millennium and  specializing in Prince William and Prince Harry’s adolescent years, William’s early romance with then-girlfriend Kate Middleton, and Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee.  

Eagle-eyed followers additionally noticed Claire and Matt Smith, who performed Prince Philip within the first two seasons of the Peter Morgan-created drama, within the trailer in flashback scenes whereas Imelda Staunton as an older Queen Elizabeth II seems to be again on her life and reign.