Helena Bonham Carter has done posh, goth and quirky, and she’s played a royal or three. She was Princess Margaret in The Crown, Margaret’s mum Elizabeth in The King’s Speech and the Red Queen in the Alice in Wonderland movies.
Now she’s another sovereign and another real card – “Queen of the Midlands” Noele “Nolly” Gordon. In the 1970s UK soap Crossroads, Gordon’s character Meg Mortimer ruled the series much like Elsie Tanner did on Coronation Street.
Or she did, until 1981, when Gordon was unceremoniously axed by the bosses at Associated
