Judi Dench is set to play Queen Victoria for the second time in drama Victoria & Abdul.
Their friendship was brought to the big screen in 1997 in drama Mrs Brown, for which Dench received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Victoria.
The drama will be based on Shrabani Basu’s book Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closet Confidant, and the screenplay will come from Billy Elliott’s Lee Hall.
The Oscar-winning actor will reunite with director Stephen Frears for the project.