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TWIGGY, 69. The model ( right) from Neasden, London, was regarded as the face of the Sixties. She was once seated at a dinner next to Princess Margaret, who asked her name. ‘I must have had one of the most famous faces on the planet,’ Twiggy recalled. ‘ “well Ma’am,” I said, “my real name is Lesley Hornby, but most people call me Twiggy.” Her Royal Highness said: “How unfortunate,” and turned away.’ Twiggy is also an actress and won two Golden Globe awards for her role in the 1971 romantic musical The Boy Friend. KATE ADIE, 73. The former war reporter and presenter of Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent has covered so many conflicts — the Falklands, Tiananmen Square, the Gulf war, former Yugoslavia — for the BBC that British soldiers used to joke that if she arrived they knew they were in trouble. She was shot four times and said: ‘Little bits of me are missing, nothing vital.’