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15 January 2011 4:04 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Actor Harriet Walter is one of the few to speak out about the fate of older women. Yet now aged 60 and in the throes of 'wonderful new romance', she has just been made a dame. What next?
Although friends had confidently predicted the fact in advance, Harriet Walter insists that it was a genuine surprise when her agent called to say she was going to be made a dame. "I said, don't be silly, I'm not a national treasure." But the letter duly arrived. "These are the sorts of things that you want your parents to be alive for," she says.
Walter is a slim person, with long hands that cradle a wine glass as though it's the most delicate thing in the world. What with one thing and another, she hasn't managed to eat all day, and is pale and keyed-up. Perhaps that exacerbates the wistfulness in her tone, »
- Aida Edemariam
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