Update (May 3): Netflix has made it official. “I’m not sure which I’m more terrified about — doing justice to the real Princess Margaret or following in the shoes of Vanessa Kirby’s Princess Margaret,” Bonham Carter said in a statement. “The only thing I can guarantee is that I’ll be shorter (than Vanessa).”

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One of the strongest forces on The Crown, Seasons 1 and 2, was Princess Margaret. Trapped between rebellion and dependency when it came to her family’s privileges, the young princess cut a tragic figure. Actress Vanessa Kirby played her with equal parts elegance and misery, but now it’s time for the actress to pass the torch.

Kirby hinted at that torch passing with great ceremony on Saturday—that is, in an Instagram of her and her rumored successor, with a caption that read simply, “Honored @thecrownnetflix.” The post seemed to suggest that the next person to walk around with cigarettes and a martini all but glued to her royal fingers will be Helena Bonham Carter. The Evening Standard reported earlier this month that Bonham Carter and Netflix were in talks. (There has been no official announcement at this time; we’ve reached out to Netflix for comment.)

Series creator Peter Morgan warned that this moment would come before the show’s first episode ever aired. Every few seasons the series’s cast will be replaced with older, more age-appropriate actors as the show charts the family throughout the decades, he said in November 2016. Bonham Carter, however, would only constitute the second casting announcement among those tapped to take up the mantle in Season 3. Olivia Colman is next in line to play Queen Elizabeth II, having taken the reign from Claire Foy, but Victoria Hamilton’s Queen Mother, Matt Smith’s Prince Philip, Matthew Goode’s Tony Armstrong-Jones (Margaret’s husband), and more have remained a mystery. Scant few new characters been announced. (Audiences will meet Camilla Parker Bowles in the new season as show producer Suzanne Mackie told crowds while speaking at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival in London.)

Regardless of who will play opposite Bonham Carter’s potential Margaret, the role seems a perfect fit for the British national treasure, who’s been many an elegant misfit, historical or otherwise, from the supportive Queen Mother in The King’s Speech to Elizabeth Taylor in Burton and Taylor to a particularly deranged Miss Havisham in 2012’s Great Expectations. The actress’s cut of the princess’s life in Season 3, per The Crown’s history consultant, Robert Lacey, is a compelling one. Audiences get to see the show take on Margaret’s affairs and the breakdown of her marriage to Armstrong-Jones.