Adultery.. If no one knows, what difference does it make?

in men was unfortunate. worst was actor Dennis tins, who she married in s after meeting him. Soon er abortion. both loved sex and became e racy parties they would ome in Kent. rd Harris, Oliver Reed, ven gangsters Ronnie and old friends of Diana’s, o the boozy, drug-fuelled ian Bob Monkhouse, one ny men sa said to have had with Dian Diana, recalled one arties in h his memoirs. He started making love to an “obliging” girl called Anita on a circular bed but became suspicious and stopped when he heard laughter.

Diana was waiting for him when he left the bedroom and said: “What a wicked waste. Come on you squeamish boy, you. Come upstairs and join us.”

Once upstairs he realised guests could watch couples having sex below.

Gangsters

She considered herself a devout Catholic but was unapologetic about affairs. She told a priest: “OK, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commitco adultery? “If no one is any the wiser, what theth hell difference does it make?” Diana could not resist alcoholic co conman Dennis. Later she said: “I fe fell for hard-luck stories the way bo boys fall for girls. To make things wo worse I surrounded myself with ga gangsters, conmen and phoneys.” He nearly wrecked her chances of cr cracking Hollywood. At a sta star-studded party to celebrate her th three- film contract with RKO Pic Pictures in 1956 he knocked out a ph photographer who had pushed them into a pool. It was around this time that Diana met and started a wild affair with Elvis. After two films, Diana’s contract was cancelled under a morality clause when she and Dennis separated and she had an affair with US actor Rod Steiger.

Back in the UK she and Dennis were reunited until his death in 1959.

A few months later she married her second husband, actor andnd comic Richard Dawson. They had sons Mark and Gary but she walked out on all three ee after seven years of f marriage. Diana met third husband Alan Lake on the set of a TV series. They married within months and shee gave birth to Jason a year ear later. The family lived in a luxury mock-tudor mansionnsion in Sunningdale, Berkshire, which had a mirrored indoor pool and leopard-skin sofas. She said: “What is bad about luxury, so long as you can afford it?”

But their marriage was the stormiest of all. Alan was an alcoholic and their relationship was rocked when Diana, aged 43, got pregnant in 1975 and had a miscarriage. Her career briefly revived