Jason Penrose became the subject of a stalking protection order (SPO) last year after sending The Crown star thousands of emails and turning up at her door.

The American citizen pleaded guilty to stalking Foy - who played Queen Elizabeth II in the first two series of the Netflix show - between August 2021 and February 2022.

He also admitted two charges of breaching an interim stalking ban order by sending a letter and a parcel to the Golden Globe winner.

Foy, 38, found the actions of the 49-year-old stalker to be "deeply frightening", a court previously heard.

At a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Penrose was spared jail and has agreed to be repatriated to the US.

He was sentenced to 22 months' imprisonment, suspended for two years.

Stalker 'infatuated' with Foy

Judge David Aaronberg said he remains "troubled" that Penrose, a paranoid schizophrenic, may continue to be "infatuated" with Foy, despite having been repeatedly told she wants no contact from him.

The conditions of the suspended sentence include that Penrose must remain under the care of a psychiatrist in the UK until his repatriation, and that he must co-operate fully with his return to the US.

If he returns to the UK during his suspended sentence, he must notify the Metropolitan Police of his arrival, telling them where he intends to stay and for how long.

The court heard that he will return to Florida to live with his mother and receive further psychiatric care.

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Judge Aaronberg also imposed a restraining order banning him from contacting or attempting to contact Foy directly or indirectly, and from sending any letters, gifts, parcels or packages to her.

Penrose is also barred from entering the London boroughs of Camden and Islington, apart from to collect his US passport, and prohibited from going within 100 metres of any premises at which he knows Foy might be present.

The judge said Foy has "become scared and suspicious of post she does not recognise and of her front doorbell ringing" in the wake of the stalking.

"She told the police she was frightened to leave her property in case you might follow her," the judge added.

Foy 'fearful' after stalker's actions

Quoting a statement from the actress, the judge said: "I feel like the freedoms I enjoyed before Mr Penrose contacted me have now gone.

"I view the world in a much more fearful way."

At the time the SPO was granted, District Judge Michael Oliver said the order was "necessary" because of the "sustained and repeated conduct due to a delusional belief Mr Penrose had about Ms Foy".

The court heard that Penrose sent an email to Foy's agent claiming he was a film director and producer and wanted her to appear in his next film.

Foy told her agent she did not know who he was, and from 2 November to mid-December, he sent more than 1,000 emails, contacted the star's sister and attended her address after finding out where it was.

Emails were also sent to Foy's publicist, Emma Jackson, writing about "wanting her to be his girlfriend", according to court papers.

Rang doorbell 'constantly'

On 17 December 2021, Foy called the police to report that Penrose was "outside her residence ringing on her doorbell constantly", the papers said.

Penrose was due to be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court in December but the case was adjourned as further assurances were sought that Penrose, who is in the UK illegally, would be deported following sentencing.

Before December's hearing, the court had also received a letter written by someone with "some sort of obsession" with Foy, Judge David Aaronberg said.

Penrose, who has been held in hospital for mental health treatment, denied sending the letter and said from the dock: "They've spelt my name wrong."

Foy, who won a Golden Globe for her performance in The Crown, also starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane, and played Neil Armstrong's wife Janet Shearon in the biopic of the astronaut, First Man.