Audrey

Today I discovered that Audrey Hepburn had a Dutch mother, was in Holland as a child during the war and used to cycle into the woods near Arnhem, under the noses of German soldiers, to deliver messages to allied troops. Years later, she was asked to play the part of Ann Frank, the Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis in a house in Amsterdam. Hepburn turned the role down but was photographed with Ann Frank's father, a gentle looking man with a kind smile. There was so much beauty in that one photo. Audrey Hepburn's beautiful eyes and vulnerable face but also the look of humanity on Pa Frank's face; so much pain but he could still smile.

It's thanks to the BBC that I know these things. Maybe the Dutch talk about it somewhere but I've never heard them. Perhaps because her father was Irish, not Dutch. So she didn't count.