In 1940, as a trainee cadet pilot with no more than 20 hours' flying time, her father flew a Morane 315 training aircraft without navigation equipment or maps from Meknès in Morocco to Gibraltar in response to Charles de Gaulle's appeal of 18 June.
[5][6] Cordet is a goddaughter of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,[7][8] and was educated first at the French Lycée in Kensington, London,[9] and then at a convent school.
[3] When she began singing she took her stage name from her mother, Hélène Cordet, who had adopted the surname early in her own professional career, as an actress and TV hostess.
She also toured in 1963 with Paul & Paula, Tony Meehan and Jet Harris, with the concert promoter Arthur Howes,[12] but by 1965 she had stopped recording.
[9] Her late brother, Max Boisot, was an architect, and professor of strategic management at the ESADE business school in Barcelona.