My great grandparents c 1887 (a rare picture of my thumbless great grandmother Lady Willemena Wills, seated front - second from left)
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The bravest Great Grandfather ever - and an example to us all: few people ever realised that Archibald Wellington Wilberforce Coburg Wills was born without a mouth. He hummed baritone for the York Cathedral choir for 40 years and restored family fortunes by inventing the broom.
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1951, me aged 6 – rather dominating the centre of the photograph with my innate elegance. The rather dashing young blade to the left of me is Mister Boris Johnson, whilst the large plump thing to my right was the same age as me and has been hospitalised since 1958.
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I think I might have been happier than Mother about my 19 pound delivery weight!
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Developing the common touch. I was taken out of Chapter House Preparatory School for one term in 1952, in order to mix with the state educated children of the poor. Seen here (second row, right) wearing mother's pearls, to my right in the row above is the artist David Hockney - and to his left is Michael Parkinson CBE. Next to me is the disturbingly popular Barbara Taylor Bradford, then Dame Dawn French, Mary Quant and Miss Yoko Ono (I think a little of my stardust may have rubbed off onto my classmates).
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Fancy dress, 1959. Yours truly aged 13, leaving for the school fancy dress party as Baroness Clementine Churchill. So convincing was my disguise that I was interned in an old people's home for several days afterwards - and in later years I agreed on several occasions to act as Clemmie's doppelganger.
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Early beneficiaries of my desire to educate the underprivileged - the 27 local boys who I was happy to assist in losing their virginity ... I assembled them in our summer house for this picture just prior to my marriage to Rupert in 1966 (points of interest: top right - Dickie Bird MBE, famous cricket referee - and to his left the virile and charming Sir Jimmy Saville).
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Jordan, Jade, Posh and Street-Porter … the first members of my Sanctuary for Conjoined Geese.
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Yours truly – as you know and love her today!
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