Babs Windsor on love, I got through biopic without any tears but I had a little blub when it was all over CARRY

Viewers see how Cockney kid Barbara Ann Deeks, played by Florence Keen, is inspired by The Queen’s coronation to change her name to Windsor.

But behind the talented child’s dazzling smile there is loneliness, evacuation in the Second World War and her parents’ troubled relationship.

Babs celebrates her rise to fame and the glitz and glamour that followed but does not shirk away from the darker times, such as her doomed marriage to jailbird Ronnie Knight and her five abortions.

Barbara was happy to open up her life and said the biopic had brought both happy and sad memories.

She said: “My childhood and my parents’ divorce were particularly difficult and painful times for me.

“But it was also full of joyful moments and made me think what an incredibly lucky lady I’ve been to have lived such a life.

“The main thing I wanted was for the story to be true and reflect my life and what moulded me to be the lady I am today.

“I believe all our pasts shape who we are, for the better or worse, but we have to own it and be honest about who we are.”

She said her childhood had been far from idyllic and her parents were not right for each other but there had been good times and they had taught her invaluable life lessons.

She hopes Babs will show her true identity as well as the highs and lows of her journey from humble beginnings to stardom.

She said: “I’ve made mistakes and, in equal measure, had some great successes and a blessed life to look back on.

“But I am proud to say I have always been honest about who I am and what I have done – much to my own detriment at times, as some of those things have often been thrown back in my face.” Barbara is played as a younger star by 32-yearold Jaime Winstone, daughter of actor Ray Winstone, and, later in life, by Samantha Spiro, 48.

The film looks back from a difficult time for Barbara, before being cast as Peggy, a role she would play for 22 years

from 1994. Her second marriage was at an end and she was on the verge of bankruptcy.

She had just met third husband Scott Mitchell, who was 26 years her junior.

Barbara said both actresses were brilliant and were “more me, than me.”

At one point she thought a picture of herself was actually Jaime.

She said: ““I was actually so confused seeing