Imelda Staunton paid tribute to the Queen by wearing pearls for The Crown’s season 5 world premiere (Picture: Getty)

The Crown’s Imelda Staunton honoured the late Queen Elizabeth II at the world premiere for the forthcoming fifth season by wearing her favourite jewellery, pearls.

The actress, who portrays the monarch in the new series, taking over the reins from Olivia Colman,  stepped onto the red carpet at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane wearing a pair of earrings and a ring that featured the glistening gemstone.

Dressed in a custom Huntsman Savile Row smart black tailored suit with an uneven black tie, Staunton accessorised her suave look with TASAKI jewellery, the Japanese designer famous for its pearls. 

She opted for a pair of earrings and a ring from the Balance Neo Diamonds Pave collection, featuring Akoya pearls and diamonds. The accessories are a modern take and a nod to the Queen’s most admired jewel.

Staunton’s stylist revealed that he ‘put the look together as a nod to her role in the TV show and that is why we opted for the pearls and British tailoring’.

A very touching tribute!

Staunton wore a pair of earrings and a ring from TASAKI (Picture: Wire Image)

The actress looked dapper in a custom Huntsman Savile Row smart black tailored suit (Picture: Getty)

The Queen’s favourite jewellery was pearls (Picture: Getty)

Staunton recently revealed she was overwhelmed with grief after the news broke that the Queen had died.

Queen Elizabeth II died aged 96 on September 8, with the nation going into a period of mourning for two weeks before she was laid to rest in a state funeral.

Staunton wasn’t aware of the news until she returned home from filming. ‘I’m afraid that night I was inconsolable,’ she recalled. ‘I was very glad I wasn’t due to be working the next day. They couldn’t have filmed on this face.’

As luck would have it, Staunton had a pre-scheduled two-week break from filming and returned to The Crown one day after the funeral.

Staunton posed with her co-stars Elizabeth Debicki, Dominic West, and Jonathan Pryce (Picture: Wire Image)

‘It’s been strange,’ she noted in conversation with Radio Times. ‘There’s no doubt I’ve got a different perspective. The outpouring of grief took me by surprise and might not have been so acute for me, had I not been playing her.

‘But she was exemplary in the execution of her duty. To have someone like that – a woman like that – is wonderful.

‘As a young girl she said, “Until the day I die, I will do my duty,” and she did, which is very powerful.’

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Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Staunton made sure to contain her feelings regarding the Queen’s death before going back to film.

‘Whatever I feel about it shouldn’t spill onto the set at all or into our story,’ she shared. ‘I had a gap in filming after she died, and I was grateful for that and so you regroup and you carry on with the series.’

The Crown season 5 arrives on Wednesday, November 9, on Netflix.

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A touching tribute.