News about Susan Hampshire

Since I was diagnosed with osteoporosis last autumn, my life has taken surprising turns. But I didn't expect it to lead to me - and my Mum - meeting the Queen in the Morning Room at Clarence House. I was invited because of my campaigning in this newspaper to raise awareness of the deadly bone disease, in particular to help people to receive an early diagnosis by making Fracture Liaison Services available throughout the country. At the reception, I was presented with a certificate of appreciation in the presence of Her Majesty. I felt a surge of pride standing by her and when she expressed 'huge thanks' for the work this paper has done. 'It really has put osteoporosis on the map,' she said. 'Can I just plead with you to keep going… it makes an enormous difference to a lot of people who would otherwise go undiagnosed.' By that point, I was buzzing.

Actors of the silver screen can often defy their years with a little help from a top-up of Botox - or even the surgeon's knife. Susan Hampshire, 86, a showbiz veteran, reveals that the trade can be as simple as a strip of Elastoplast to the forehead. During an interview with the Talking Pictures TV Festival, the triple Emmy Award winner, who appeared in hit TV series including The Forsyte Saga and Monarch Of The Glen, admitted her cheeky trick. She even showed off her forehead to co-hosts Mike Read and Caroline Munro, as well as the live audience in St Albans.

Susan Hampshire's scene depicts such detail: stones in her pockets, a strong drink taken, and then plunging into the River Thames could be from one of the three-time Emmy Award-winning actress Susan Hampshire's enthralling dramas. However, what the octogenarian star of 1960s BBC classic The Forsyte Saga is describing are her plans, if the need arises, to end her life - so desperate is she to escape the cruelty her two sisters endured during their final weeks. Susan's eldest sister, Jane, resigned to starving herself to death in 2020 to ease her agony. Susan, 86, would prefer to delay the drastic move she has considered and the unavoidable pain that would cause her family. For the reason, she is in good health and wishing to live many years ahead of her, she has been the latest high-profile celebrity to join the growing chorus, which includes Dame Esther Rantzen and Baroness Joan Bakewell, who has called for the legislation to be changed to allow those nearing the end of their lives the right to die. I have witnessed, hour by hour and week, my loved ones' requests for a dignified end have been turned down by a week,' Susan wrote in a letter to the House of Commons health select committee, which is considering assisted suicide.' 'It will never leave me.'

The actress, 73, (left), who hails from Scotland but lives in London, has expressed concern for her family's welfare, and she hopes that her family would do the same for her. Lindsay told Emma Barnett that she was'very close' with her mother and 'knew her better than anyone else' in a snippet of the interview posted on the show's Instagram. 'She had hormonal problems and wanted to find what was wrong with her,' the actress explained. Lindsay is now starring Truelove, a darkly comic representation of assisted dying.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Old Tom (Karl Johnson), lying in a hospital bed after a failed attempt to hang himself and full of cancer, summed up the tragic irony of his predicament. He 'I'm on suicide watch,' and 'Do Not Resuscitate.' Doctors will let your own body murder you, but they are not expected to step in and speed up the process. That's the inconsistency of current terminal illness legislation: doctors will allow your own body to murder you. Likewise, anyone who supports a suicide, even by accompanying a loved one to a hospital in Switzerland, Dignitas, is vulnerable to prosecution.

Susan Hampshire, a veteran actress who left stage and screen to tend to her husband and elderly siblings, has requested an urgent review of assisted dying. She said the agony of witnessing her loved ones' wishes for a 'dignified end' being refused would never stop her. Ms Hampshire, 86, who is best known for her role in the BBC drama The Forsyte Saga, said a democratic and civilized world would surely be able to rethink the current law.' In a letter to the health and social care committee's inquiry into assisted suicide, she made the remarks. Last month, a new discussion about the subject was ignited when Childline founder Dame Esther Rantzen, who has stage four lung cancer, revealed that she had assisted the Dignitas assisted dying clinic.

Mahfouz Mahafouz bin Mahfouz (left), the name of the Saudi tycoon at the center of the scandal, has been taken down from the castle's website. He had been named as the top honorary patron, complete with a biography. Mahfouz, as well as broadcasters Alan Titchmarsh (inset) and Ken Bruce, as well as actress Susan Hampshire, have all been barred from the 'friends and supporters' section. The list of honorary patrons had been on the website for many years. The Castle of Mey (right), on the north coast of Scotland, was owned by the Queen Mother and is where Charles stays for a week each August.

RICHARD EDEN: After marrying Texan model Elle Evans, Devon-raised rock star Matt Bellamy hopes to become a US citizen. Bellamy, who has a son with his ex fiancee, actress Kate Hudson, says, 'I actually think the United States' system is really impressive, with all the various ways to make rules at the local level.' The Muse actress screams every month that my wife is determining on some sort of contract.' 'I'm looking at it's going to be, wow, England is so behind on that front.' We don't ever get to vote on policy.' He was probably too occupied headlining stadiums to notice the Brexit referendum, which was odd for a singer whose latest album is called Will Of The People.