I’d seen her before, dressed impeccably. I approached her and asked if I could photograph her with Dot. I introduced myself as Reg and amongst the bar noise I managed to hear her shout ‘THE BITCH’. Confused I asked what she meant and stood nearer, she explained she had been in the film ‘The Bitch’ with Joan Collins and had been a glamour model, I reply that I once bizarrely photographed Joan Collins.
There’s a pause before I’m told to ‘wait here’ as I watch her walk out of the pub. Five minutes later she’s back with her modelling card-It felt like fiction, the pictures on the card....her name....Princess Balou...She then signed the card to me and wrote her telephone number on it. I remember thinking was it her personal memento? I asked-are you sure you want me to have this?