2. At the same time, they manage to be completely otherworldly. “The world they live in is so beyond our understanding,” Helen Mirren told the
New York Times. The actress, who portrayed Queen Elizabeth in the 2006 film
The Queen, added that as a royal, “You’ve never queued for anything. Ever, for anything. Every time you go in the street, the traffic is stopped for you. It’s a world you can’t imagine. "They are, in a way, aliens. But inside that, they are the same flawed, insecure, vulnerable, complicated human beings we are.” Photo: Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images