The Crown’s Emma Corrin cuts a casual figure on dog walk with pals

The Crown’s Emma Corrin cut a casual figure as she stepped out in London for a dog walk with friends on Sunday.

The Princess Diana actress, 25,  wrapped up as she grabbed coffee with her pals, clad in a grey checked coat with a dove grey hood and black scarf.

She paired this with bootcut jeans and black boots and gloves as she bundled up in the winter chill.

The star wore her brunette locks sleek and straight and appeared to go make-up free for the outing.

The actress, who has received critical acclaim for her role in the Netflix show, looked in great spirits as she enjoyed some fresh air with friends, days before England entered into a third national lockdown. 

The outing comes as it emerged Emma was originally hired by the production team to help audition actresses vying to portray Camilla Parker Bowles, it has been revealed.

Emma has won acclaim for her portrayal of the late Princess Diana in season four of the hit Netflix drama, but casting directors didn’t originally see her as the person for the role until they watched her play against auditioning actresses. 

Emmy-winning casting director Robert Sterne has revealed to Elle that the tense lunch between Princess Diana and Emerald Fennell’s Camilla was used as an audition scene for the latter role, with Emma only serving as a stand-in reader as Diana.   

Sterne explained: ‘I usually read in all these meetings, but we decided because it was this major scene that we would get somebody to come in [for Diana]. We asked Emma to come in, not thinking about casting Diana at this point.

‘But as she was reading with these Camillas, all the directors and the showrunner were looking more at her and not at the people playing Camilla—who will remain nameless, of course.  

‘When we got to thinking about Diana a year later, there she was in my notes.’

The revelation comes after Kent-born Emma said she ‘understands’ calls by the Culture Secretary to include a disclaimer on the newest series.  

The actress insisted the series doesn’t require a warning as fans are aware the drama is ‘very clearly’ a ‘dramatised version of events.’ 

It comes following calls from Oliver Dowden to state that The Crown is clearly a work of fiction, but Netflix has insisted the series is billed as a drama meaning a disclaimer isn’t needed.   

Emma spoke out on the disclaimer row in an interview with Variety for their iHeart Radio podcast The Big Ticket, saying: ‘It is very clearly a dramatised version of events.’

The actress echoed her co-star Josh O’Connor’s claims that viewers are well aware the series is a work of fiction.  

She added: ‘This is fictitious in the same way people don’t mistake Succession for what actually happened with the Murdochs.

‘I also understand [the request] comes from a place of sensitivity and protectiveness of the Royal Family and Diana.’

Emma made her debut in The Crown’s fourth series, playing a younger version of Princess Diana, as the show documented her turbulent marriage to Prince Charles.