From tales about Princess Margaret to Freddie Mercury, the anecdotes throughout the book are delicious
, you can’t dye your hair hot pink and not expect people to talk about it. While Technicolour tresses have become more mainstream, sporting a neon fuchsia bob is still a calling card – especially if you’re 83.
Rhodes has lived a colourful life and has the receipts to prove it. The day she was born, in Chatham in September 1940, her parents had to dash to the hospital during an air raid. Her mother had spent the mid-30s in, arriving alone with no French, or experience, to find a job as a pattern-cutter at a couture house. Later, she was a senior fashion lecturer at the Medway College of Art.
Her eye for detail and extraordinary access make for delicious anecdotes, such as when she did a fitting for Princess Margaret: “As I went to sit down on the couch, I noticed a petit-point cushion with a message embroidered on it that read ‘It’s not easy being a princess.’ To this day, I still wonder who might have given it to her.” She also spots that the Princess’s tea cup has been prefilled, perhaps with “her favourite tipple”, a gin and tonic.
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