Joan Collins turns 90 on 23rd May. It's hard to believe (even when you look very closely – and I have), but it's true.
When I turned 75 in March, she called me on my birthday – and she gave me a generous present, too. As Dame Joan enters her tenth decade, I want to return the compliment with a small bouquet of my own.
She is a phenomenon. Other than the late Elizabeth II, who had an inherited advantage, no other British woman of our
