Lesley Manville on playing Princess Margaret in emotional ‘Crown’ episode

Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret sitting on a couch in a blue and black striped dress.

Fans of Princess Margaret — and Lesley Manville, the actor who has played the late Countess of Snowdon in seasons 5 and 6 of “The Crown” — have had to wait patiently in the final […]

Alis Lesley: the ‘female Elvis’ who takes centre stage on Bob Dylan’s new book cover | Bob Dylan

Alis Lesley pictured in Australia, 1957.

In the early days of modern US pop music, female artists struggled to achieve the recognition of their male counterparts. So a new marketing trope emerged. It labelled jazz trumpeter Ernestine “Tiny” Davis as “the […]