She was sitting next to her wartime sweetheart on a bus when he turned to her and insisted she’d have to give up her stage career once they married.
Honor Blackman may have barely been in her twenties, and the dashing merchant seaman may have been her first love, but she knew her mind.
She wasn’t having one bit of it. She promptly got off the bus, and never saw him again. Later, the deliciously gravelly voiced icon would make her name as martial arts queen Cathy Gale in The Avengers – a glamorous blonde bombshell who could hold her own next to Patrick Macnee ’s John Steed. (She refused to carry her gun in her handbag for a start...) But long before that breakthrough role in 1962, Honor was karate kicking conventions aside.
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