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There’s a real camaraderie among us Bond girls,

feel part of an exclusive club. We are invited to the premieres, and this was the year that the great actress Rosamund Pike [far right] joined the club for her part in the film Die Another Day. Ursula Andress [centre, with Maud Adams, left, and Serena Gordon, right], who’s so much fun, was there too. She was in Dr No, of course, with Sean Connery. She never thought the film would be a success but suddenly her image was everywhere.

I met my husband, the director Hugh Hudson, at a dinner at his artist friend Brian Clarke’s house 20 years ago. I’d actually met him many years before when he interviewed me for his film Greystoke. He was married then and he’d already cast Andie Macdowell in his head so he didn’t remember me, but I remembered him! This was taken after the Cairo film festival when they organised a wonderful cruise up the Nile.