‘I married my husband for love, not money,’ she later said of her marriage to Viscount Weymouth, later the Marquess of Bath
His arrest and deportation from Yugoslavia led to the establishment of the charity Open Doors, which has a global presence
His distinctive figure could often be seen striding around Beak Street, having stepped off the 94 bus from Notting Hill Gate
He intended to pick out the ‘rotten apples’, he said, only to find that ‘the barrel itself appeared to be infected’
His achieved his biggest victory despite being convinced that he had been selected for the wrong race
As the Japanese closed in he refused to be evacuated but eventually escaped in two canoes lashed together
‘I see her as a human being,’ she said of Ratched. ‘She believes that what’s she’s doing is absolutely right and best for all the patients’
His long-running role was lucrative but typecast him, he said: ‘It has hindered my career. Work has been very thin on the ground’
She also sang with Spike Jones and his City Slickers, billed as the ‘Slickerette’
Hilary Mantel broke records as the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice and the first author to win with a sequel – Bring Up the Bodies
When coronavirus struck he put his drag queen persona aside to return to nursing
Largely self-taught, with her carefree, bohemian life she was a particular inspiration for women artists
Babies were taken from unmarried mothers, and even the suspicion that a girl might have unmarried sex could lead to her being locked up
An expert in space medicine, he undertook his mission on the Mir space station to study the effects of long-term weightlessness
It was, said Britain’s censor James Ferman, ‘the first film of its genre that didn’t play to the raincoat brigade’
His squadron received the Boyd Trophy for their skilful flying in the narrow gap between the jungle canopy and dense cloud
His mission was called off when British forces began withdrawing from Palestine, but back at home he planted a bomb in the Soviet embassy
Japan and Britain had mutual interests, he said, as island naval powers with difficult continental neighbours
Also known as Ricki VanDusen, she appeared in the My Gang series, with Mabel Normand, and with Oliver Hardy without Stan Laurel
He was convicted of murder after police used techniques described as ‘almost beyond belief’ 13 years before DNA profiling caught the killer