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" I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. "

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" I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. "

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" I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely. "

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