Trivia

Studied at the Sorbonne for two terms. Also studied at the University of Madrid, as well as teaching English at a Madrid psychiatric clinic.

Designed jewellery and owned a shop in London. (October 2006)

She was made a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 Queen's Honours List for services to drama.

Designed some of the jewellery worn by Cate Blanchett (Queen Elizabeth) and her ladies in waiting in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). Pieces from Rees's Qing Dynasty Collection are seen throughout the film.

Her eldest son Linford was killed instantly in 1999 in a road accident, while driving to pick up books from Cambridge University. He had just been awarded a master's degree in Philosophy from Cambridge.

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Started as assistant stage manager and actor with the West Cliff Theatre in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

A pub was named after her, in Pontypridd, South Wales. It was closed down and replaced by a greetings card shop in 2009.

Her youngest son Rhys William Cazenove was born in December 1976

2 sons

Great niece of Rachel Thomas.

Her father was psychiatrist professor Linford Rees.

Her year of birth was given as 1949 throughout her professional life, and some obituaries and death announcements, such as that in The Times and The Guardian and on the BBC News website, gave that year. However her actual birth year was 1944.