News about Diana Dors

Antonio Mancini, 39, was about to pay the price for stabbing to death a gangster who had started a brawl in his Soho nightclub while standing on the gallows at London's Pentonville Prison, with his arms pinioned behind his back and a noose around his neck. The trapdoors under his feet would crack open within seconds, causing him to crash to death. But, on that chilly Friday morning in October 1941, he had remarkably relaxed as his ankles were tied together and the customary white hood was woven over his head. He smiled as if leaving a party.'Cheerio,' he said jokingly as if leaving a party. That was the last thing Mancini ever said, but even though his composure was impressive, it was more than matched by the man about to kill him, 36-year-old Albert Pierrepoint.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Sabrina is the inspiration for Gemma Arterton's bubbly adolescent actress Barbara in Funny Woman, which is based on British film actress Diana Dors. Barbara is up for a challenge, irreverent and sarcastic. She also has the double-Davantages that made Sabrina so briefly celebrated. No wonder the post-war showbiz establishment hasn't had no idea what to do with her. Funny Woman, with a Morwenna Banks stinging script, revels in all the raunchy sexism of the 1960s while mocking the guys who assumed every attractive female figure was topped off by a head full of air.

Prince Harry owed his Granny, his 'darling wife' Meghan, and her beloved grandchildren Archie and Lilibet, whom the Queen had barely met, on an emotional level. When he and Meghan so selfishly shattered Prince Philip's and the Queen's last weeks before Philip died, with their incendiary Oprah Winfrey interview, what a brass neck he must worry about peace.