{"id":39847,"date":"2023-11-16T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1927837"},"modified":"2023-11-16T16:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:51:02","slug":"the-crown-season-6-features-hollyoaks-actor-in-major-role","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-crown-season-6-features-hollyoaks-actor-in-major-role\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crown season 6 features Hollyoaks actor in major role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Otway appears as Princess Diana’s bodyguard. <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 16 November 2023 at 15:48 PM<\/p>

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Now that the first four episodes of The Crown<\/a> season 6 are available to stream on Netflix<\/a>, fans of the royal drama are finding that it features a surprise actor<\/a> in a major role \u2013 Hollyoaks<\/a>\u2018s Lee Otway.<\/p>\n

Otway played David \u2018Bombhead\u2019 Burke in the soap between 2001 and 2005, and has since had minor roles in series such as Doctors<\/a> and The Syndicate. He made a short re-appearance as Bombhead in 2011.<\/p>\n

Now, Otway has made a surprise appearance in The Crown, playing Princess Diana\u2019s bodyguard Kez Wingfield. Wingfield was one of two bodyguards, along with Trevor Rees-Jones, who tried to protect Diana on the night she died.<\/p>\n

Rees-Jones is played in the series by Harry Anton (The Last Kingdom<\/a>).<\/p>\n