For the record

Lace was based on her time at Swiss finishing school where she was taught, among other things, what to do if her knickers fell down in public. ✶✶✶✶✶✶ Shirley funded art school by waitressing in a café. It was here that she met first husband, Sir Terence Conran. ✶✶✶✶✶✶ Now 84, she was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship by University College London.