A right royal mistake: is the Queen the ultimate feminist? Absolutely not

Olivia Colman has said that Her Majesty is feminist through and through - a shining example to other women. Here's why her reasoning doesn't stack up

For clarity, I love Olivia Colman, we love her (if I have read this memo correctly) and she is a feminist. She was accused of having a "leftwing face" by the Telegraph columnist Charles Moore. "What the hell is a leftwing face?" she retorted, rightly. She does, however, have a feminist face, by which I mean there is a lot going on in it.

However, her assertion this week that the Queen - whom she plays, following a cast change, in the new series of The Crown - is the "ultimate feminist", is incorrect. The more Colman explains her reasoning in an interview with Radio Times, the more incorrect it becomes. "She's the breadwinner, she's the one on our coins and banknotes. Prince Philip has to walk behind her. She fixed cars in the second world war. She insisted on driving a king who came from a country where women weren't allowed to drive [King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, at Balmoral in 1998]. She's no shrinking violet."