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Honor Blackman and Maurice Kaufman on their wedding day in 1961

Desmond’s death in 2000 at the age of 69.

Avengers and James Bond star Honor Blackman married actor Maurice Kaufmann on December 18, 1961 at Chelsea Register Office.

It was Honor’s second marriage and the couple held their wedding reception at a club in Chelsea. Shortly after the wedding, she met producer Leonard White to talk about playing Cathy Gale opposite Patrick Macnee as suave agent John Steed in The Avengers.

Honor and her husband adopted two children – Lottie and Barnaby – but the couple amicably divorced in 1975 and Honor, who is now aged 94, never remarried.

Bestselling writer Jackie Collins married her first husband, Wallace Austin, at Grosvenor House in London on December 13, 1960. She wore a traditional white wedding dress and veil for the ceremony. Among the guests was her actress sister Joan. Jackie married again in 1965 to art gallery and nightclub owner Oscar Lerman and this time held the wedding at the home of Dynasty star Joan.

The wedding of Bill Treacher, who played Arthur Fowler in EastEnders and actress Katherine Kessey was held at St Leonard’s Church, Streatham on December 1, 1971. Bill, part of the original cast of EastEnders, and Katherine are still together and the bride’s twin sister, Karen, was their bridesmaid.

James Bond star Sir Sean Connery married his first wife, actress Diane Cilento, in a secret wedding in Gibraltar on December 6, 1962. The couple, who were together 11 years before divorcing in 1973, honeymooned

Esther Rantzen and Desmond Wilcox