Bonham Carter uses medium for advice on Princess Margaret role

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'The Crown' star contacted character's ghost

22 September, 2018

Helena Bonham Carter hired a psychic to contact the late Princess Margaret for advice on her latest TV role.

The actress, whose roles include the villainous Bellatrix Lestrange in the "Harry Potter" franchise, most recently landed the part of the late royal in the award-winning historical drama The Crown.

While the 52-year-old has played a member of the royal family before in The King's Speech, this time she decided to seek the advice of someone with first-hand experience - Princess Margaret herself - through the services of a psychic medium.

"She always likes to research her roles with as much depth as possible - and is always prepared to go that extra mile," said a TV insider. "So if that means using someone with supernatural powers to speak to a character who is now on the other side then Helena has no problems with doing that."

As a genealogist, I always think that if mediums could really do this kind of thing they would be incredibly useful in genealogical research. It would be a pretty stringent test, because if a genealogist had tried hard and failed to find the answer to the question, by definition it wouldn't be easy for anyone else to find. Also, if the question concerned something that happened - say - a couple of centuries ago and was hard for genealogists to answer, it wouldn't be very likely that any living person knew the information. But in many cases, once the correct answer was known it would be possible to verify it.

I've never heard of that happening, though - or even being attempted.

As a genealogist, I always think that if mediums could really do this kind of thing they would be incredibly useful in genealogical research. It would be a pretty stringent test, because if a genealogist had tried hard and failed to find the answer to the question, by definition it wouldn't be easy for anyone else to find. Also, if the question concerned something that happened - say - a couple of centuries ago and was hard for genealogists to answer, it wouldn't be very likely that any living person knew the information. But in many cases, once the correct answer was known it would be possible to verify it.

I've never heard of that happening, though - or even being attempted.

More than that, if it was really possible then we could solve any murder case pretty easily! Some psychics have claimed to hear the murdered reveal who murdered them.

More than that, if it was really possible then we could solve any murder case pretty easily! Some psychics have claimed to hear the murdered reveal who murdered them.

When one starts to dig more deeply into areas like this, I think it's worth bearing in mind that we are looking at things from an Earthly perspective. Sometimes, for example in NDEs, a person may find that there are other, different perspectives. Matters which we consider important, may not be, and matters which we disregard, may be important. At any rate, I don't think we can apply simple scientific or police-detective style logic to the topic, without at least giving a nod towards other perspectives.