Katie Boyle has died

[Walt Zingmatilder]

BBC face of television in the sixties Katie Boyle has died aged 91.She was a presenter and host of Eurovision.

[Aruntraveller]

Her real name was, wait for it:

Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali de Principi di Francavilla

Now that is a name!

[Rhiannon]

I don’t remember her on tv at all but I have enduring memories of reading her agony aunt column in the TV Times each week when I was a child. (I have no idea why either). It was from this I learned that you remove red wine stains with white and that a bowl of lettuce with boiling water poured over it and placed in a bedroom will cure insomnia.

A world away from the ‘I’m shagging my boyfriend’s mother’ letters that you find in Dear Diedre.

[Steve H]

I thought she snuffed it decades ago.

[Robbie]

I don’t remember her on tv at all but I have enduring memories of reading her agony aunt column in the TV Times each week when I was a child. (I have no idea why either). It was from this I learned that you remove red wine stains with white and that a bowl of lettuce with boiling water poured over it and placed in a bedroom will cure insomnia.

A world away from the ‘I’m shagging my boyfriend’s mother’ letters that you find in Dear Diedre.

I too have recollections of that though I don't know 'Dear Deidre'. Knew someone who worked for Claire Rayner.

(I was told that pouring salt on red wine stains gets rid of. Probably both methods work as long as you put the thing in the washing machine not too long after.)