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Foyle's War star Honeysuckle Weeks accuses Jerry Hall's niece of being her late husband's mistress
Suitably renewed, the effervescent 45-year-old actress is now evidently once more ready for battle... a very personal battle, it would seem.
Blessed with poise and presence, she won accolades and adoration alike for her portrayal of Samantha 'Sam' Stewart in Foyle's War, appearing in every episode of Anthony Horowitz's award-winning ITV series, only for her stellar career to falter as her turbulent marriage unravelled. But after divorcing her husband, raffish grandee Lorne Stormonth Darling, and doing an 18-month stint as a washer-upper - in her words, 'a lesson in humility' - Honeysuckle Weeks triumphantly resurfaced last year, shedding inhibitions, and clothing, on stage in a musical version of Calendar Girls. His father, Robin, had been eminent chairman of City stockbroking firm and living at the other end of the spectrum from life on Gometra, where Daphne and Roc had brought up Lazer and Blue without cars, electricity or hot water.
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