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She commented on the Duke of Cornwall’s response to the crash, saying: “Prince Charles sensed correctly that everything would be chaos at home, so he asked his cook, instead of taking care of him, to take care of us.

“So our lunches and dinners were cooked at Clarence House then delivered for weeks on end while I was in hospital and then still disabled at home.”

She described the gesture as a "magnificently practical" gift which aided her with her recovery.

The actress, who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of the Queen's cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, was travelling from the film set of director Danny Boyle’s series Trust in Cambridgeshire in November 2017 when her car was hit by another.