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Dame Diana Rigg, who set pulses racing as leather-clad emma Peel in The avengers, has also become a first-time granny at 78. her actress daughter Rachael Stirling, who is married to Guy Garvey, singer of pop band elbow, gave birth to a son at the weekend. Garvey, who hails from working-class Bury, met Stirling, the daughter of millionaire Scottish landowner archie Stirling and Dame Diana, at actor Benedict Cumberbatch’s wedding in 2015. ‘i only knew the groom,’ Garvey recalled. ‘So i turned up with 80 cigarettes and came back with Rachael.’