Author Wendy Mitchell passed away this week aged 68 after spending years documenting her battle with dementia. This is an extract from her bestselling 2018 book Somebody I Used to Know
BBC executive Hilda Matheson wrote letters to Vita Sackville-West (pictured) the 36-year-old poet and novelist who later created a stunning garden at Sissinghurst, in Kent
My wedding day could not have been more perfect or spectacular - and no one minded a bit that the bride was aged 73. I d organised the whole thing myself and that included importing more than 100,000 roses.