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<\/p>\nIn the Crown she portrays the late Queen partying as a teenager on VE Day with her sister Princess Margaret.<\/p>\n
But in real life, a night out for rising star Viola Prettejohn is even more lively.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old adopted what she called a ‘disco cowgirl’ look for a wild night out in Cardiff \u2013 ripped denim miniskirt, sparkly top and a lumberjack shirt.<\/p>\n
She was joined at party bar Revolution by three friends, also in fancy dress, before posting their antics on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Miss Prettejohn was educated at the \u00a330,000-a-year St Paul’s Girls’ School in West London \u2013 although she may have missed a spelling class or two as she captioned the photos: ‘A disco cowgirl, a scarlett witch, a saloon wench and a baby guinness walk into a bar…’<\/p>\n
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In the Crown she portrays the late Queen partying as a teenager on VE Day with her sister Princess Margaret\u00a0<\/p>\n
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But in real life, a night out for rising star Viola Prettejohn is even more lively\u00a0<\/p>\n
The actress has made no secret about her love of a booze-fuelled bar crawl in the Welsh capital, where she has been filming a gory new Channel 4 zombie series called Generation Z. ‘It’s a really good, trashy night out, which I love,’ she told City AM earlier this month. ‘I like starting with nice cocktails and then slowly going more divey until I’m really at a trash place.’<\/p>\n
It might not be regal behaviour, but Miss Prettejohn has been hailed the ‘saviour’ of the final series of The Crown, following a string of controversies about the way the Netflix series has portrayed reality.<\/p>\n
In the drama, she plays the 19-year-old Queen Elizabeth, who sneaked out of Buckingham Palace on VE Day with Princess Margaret to join the crowds celebrating the end of the Second World War.<\/p>\n
Forty years later, the late Queen recalled the evening as ‘one of the most memorable nights of my life’, describing how people filled Whitehall, ‘swept along on a tide of happiness and relief’.<\/p>\n
Miss Prettejohn \u2013 who admits ‘I’ve never had any strong opinions about the royals’ \u2013 auditioned four times for The Crown after talent agents came to her school.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The daughter of TSB chairman Nick Prettejohn, she grew up in a \u00a33.8 million townhouse in Kensington, West London, where she still lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said she ‘never intended to be an actor’ until her drama teacher put her up for auditions aged 14.<\/p>\n
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The daughter of TSB chairman Nick Prettejohn, left, she grew up in a \u00a33.8 million townhouse in Kensington, West London, where she still lives<\/p>\n