Diane Clare, whose career stretched from Ice-Cold in Alex to the Hammer horror classic The Plague of the Zombies, has died aged 74.
The actress played Angela Lansbury’s daughter in The Reluctant Debutante, even though she was only 12 years her junior.
In Ice-Cold in Alex, she and Sylvia Sims were nurses being escorted across the desert in enemy-occupied North Africa by Sir John Mills and Harry Andrews.
Clare married the author Barry England in 1967. Two years later, his thriller Figures in a Landscape was nominated for the inaugural Booker Prize.
England, who died in 2009, also wrote the play Conduct Unbecoming. The couple are survived by their two children, Kate and Christopher.
How to avoid the gate crashers
Twenty years after the Queen Elizabeth Gate was erected in Hyde Park in honour of the Queen Mother, a party was held to celebrate.
Prince Michael of Kent, who came up with the idea of the gates, which are credited with saving lives in an accident-blighted corner of Park Lane, attended the reception.
It was held at the Chelsea home of Basia Briggs, who describes herself as the “dogsbody” behind the appeal to pay for them.
Lady Elizabeth Anson, the Queen’s cousin, was joined by Andrew Parker Bowles and his girlfriend, Lady Morrison.
However, the liveliest guest was the fireworks expert Major Sir Michael Parker, who organised numerous royal events. Sadly, the author of It’s All Going Terribly Wrong was not asked to cause any explosions on Basia's balcony.
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