Actress Elizabeth Hurley has a few ideas of what she’d like to do as queen for a day. Speaking in a Q&A with The Guardian, Hurley, who played Queen Helena on the TV show The Royals, said she’d want to ban air fresheners in cars and have better labels for ultra-processed foods. She’d also want to ban prison sentences for white collar criminals “and make them give back to the community instead,” she said. “Imagine if Lester Piggott had had to spend years teaching inner-city kids to ride horses,” Hurley added, referencing the British jockey who served a year in prison in 1987 for tax fraud. On the flip side, she said she’d want longer sentences for violent criminals. Hurley’s answer was a response to a Guardian reader question on what laws she would pass to make the country “a happier (or unhappier) place.” Hurley also said her favorite part of playing the queen on the show was “saying ‘walk away’ when anyone annoyed me and watching them dutifully scurry off.”
