HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JOAN BAKEWELL, 85, right. The broadcaster and labour peer grew up on Bakewell Street in Stockport — which just so happened to have the same name as her first husband. In the 1960s, she began an eight-year affair with playwright harold Pinter, which lasted through her second pregnancy and inspired his play Betrayal. She asked him to change the title, feeling it was ‘accusatory’, but he refused. MARGRETHE II, 78. The Queen of Denmark since 1972 speaks five languages and studied archaeology at Cambridge. her husband Prince henrik, who died in February, had said he would not be buried next to his wife because of his anger at never being made king. he likened himself to ‘a little dog’ following her around.