[1] Alberta Constance Chapman was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1925.

[1] She served in the Canadian Army before marrying a diplomat named Al Wells.

They spent two years in Burma before the marriage ended amicably.

[5] In 1965, the head of ITV had to apologise to the police after her suggestion that they might let an art thief "fall down some stairs".

She moved to New York with a designer named Hylan Booker, whilst her former husband married Vanessa Lawson.