With the wonderful Dame Judi Dench, at the beginning of March, I am hosting a charity matinee at the London Palladium.
It’s to mark my 75th birthday and, more importantly, to raise £ 75,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital, where my youngest grandson was successfully treated for cancer when he was just a baby.
The show is going to be a celebration of some of my favourite people: Britain’s great theatrical dames.
The first actor to be knighted was Sir Henry Irving in