Young Princess Margaret

Margaret grows up in the shadow of the crown, the younger sister who was never meant to rule and feels the difference keenly. She's spirited, sharp-tongued, and quick to notice unfairness, especially when it touches her sister Elizabeth. Charm comes easily to her; so does frustration at being second.

Gadsdon plays her as a child already learning the family's central lesson — that duty crushes desire — without yet having the resignation to accept it. The performance finds real ache in small moments, the flashes of jealousy and defiance that make clear this is a person storing up feelings she'll spend a lifetime not being allowed to have.