Jenna Coleman puts on a leggy display in a black velvet dress and checked blazer as she visits the BBC Radio studios

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Last month she hit back at claims she was too pretty to play Queen Victoria in ITV's new hit period drama.

And on Thursday Jenna Coleman did nothing to disprove claims of her beauty, as she visited the BBC Radio Two studios in London.

The 30-year-old Doctor Who star showed off her toned legs in a short black velvet dress. 

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Too beautiful to play queen Victoria? On Thursday Jenna Coleman did nothing to disprove claims of her beauty, as she visited the BBC Radio Two studios in London

The English actress added a splash of colour with an oversized brown checked blazer.

Adding height to her stature with matching black velvet ankle boots she looked every inch the effortless star. 

And paying attention to detail she accessorised with kooky round sunglasses, a bold red lip and a quilted Chanel handbag. 

Turning heads: The 30-year-old Doctor Who star showed off her toned legs in a short black velvet dress

Last month saw the first episode of ITV's new flagship drama Victoria - but some are claiming that the show's star Jenna is too beautiful to play the Queen. 

But the brunette beauty hit back at the claims, explaining: 'I want to say 'Google young Victoria'. 

'Portraits are subjective, the eye of the beholder perhaps, but you want people to look a bit further than that,' the actress and Doctor Who star told Nick Grimshaw, during his Radio One breakfast show, when asked about the audience objections.

Hot stuff: Adding height to her stature with matching black velvet ankle boots she looked every inch the effortless star

'In some portraits she looks very young and exuberant and others are not as flattering. When she gets older they perhaps become less flattering.' 

Historians disagree on how physically attractive the young Queen was, but early photographs of her show her to have the typical Hanoverian features of large eyes and a weak chin, as well as a very severe centre-parted hairline.

It's a success: The ITV series starring Jenna has even beaten Poldark in the ratings

It's Chanel: Jenna paired her outfit with a chic handbag from the French designer 

However, early portraits around the time of her marriage show her as a pretty young woman.

By the time of Victoria's death in 1901, she was notoriously overweight and wore 50-inch bloomers.

But while viewers may have disagreed on Coleman's casting, they were entranced by Rufus Sewell's turn as the Queen's first Prime Minister Lord Melbourne - with some even saying that Prince Albert could not compare. 

Leggy: Paying attention to detail she accessorised with kooky round sunglasses, a bold red lip and a quilted Chanel handbag

Sewell, 48, played the dashing but brooding Prime Minister to perfection and early reaction indicates he could join the ranks of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy and Richard Armitage as John Thornton in the period drama Hall of Fame.

Tweeter Tamsin posted: 'Lord M is fantastic and I almost wish there wasn't an Albert.'

Sheila Beard said: 'Rufus Sewell stole the show as Lord M, shame she fell for Albert.'

Not 'too pretty to play the queen': The brunette beauty hit back at the claims, explaining: 'I want to say 'Google young Victoria'

Sewell, 48, played the dashing but brooding Prime Minister to perfection and early reaction indicates he could join the ranks of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy and Richard Armitage as John Thornton in the period drama Hall of Fame.

Tweeter Tamsin posted: 'Lord M is fantastic and I almost wish there wasn't an Albert.'

Sheila Beard said: 'Rufus Sewell stole the show as Lord M, shame she fell for Albert.'

The pair were seen leaving a party in the same taxi earlier this summer, and have also been spotted strolling together in West London.

Victoria continues tonight on ITV at 9pm. 

Cover girl: Jenna was joined by fellow actor Tom Hughes as she celebrated her cover issue of October's Glamour UK at a private dinner on Thursday night

A bit of all white: The actress looked effortlessly elegant in a draped cream dress 

Controversy: Last month saw the first episode of ITV's new flagship drama Victoria - but some are claiming that the show's star Jenna is too beautiful to play the Queen