I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.