Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} What This Katie Did by Katie Boyle Katie Boyle obituary. Katie Boyle, who has died aged 91, was one of the last survivors of an era when popular television did not exclude airs of vivacious gentility. She was made by the BBC, for which she starred in many guises, from compering the to appearing in gameshows, was watched by millions and even appeared in cheerful commercials for Camay soap. Boyle was canny as well as beautiful and managed to put the way she looked to good use in a television and modelling career that lasted more than three decades. She admitted at the height of her popularity that she had never been “good at anything, but I’ve always been enthusiastic and wanted to learn – like a sponge absorbing everything”. She declared that “if I were on a desert island I would find something to work at”. She prided herself in being professional, whether presenting fashion shows or opening shops (often) or appearing in films (rarely) and she brought bubbling vivacity and colour to a Britain made grey and austere by the second world war. Katie Boyle presenting the Eurovision Song Contest. At her peak, she seemed to be everywhere on TV and radio, from Juke Box Jury, evaluating pop records, to presenting the Eurovision Song Contest four times between 1960 and 1974. She compered programmes such as Quite Contrary, a blend of sketches and songs, on which she first appeared in the early 1950s in a segment called the Beauty Spot, simply sitting on a gilded throne, wearing a £200 gown and saying nothing while an orchestra played Lovely Lady. At the last moment, she forgot the script (or lack of it) and spontaneously winked straight into camera. The following week, in their own TV show, the comedians Eric Barker and Pearl Hackney had Pearl on a similar gilded throne, holding a frying pan full of sausages. She appeared throughout the 50s and 60s on gameshows such as The Name’s the Same, I’ve Got a Secret and Pick the Winner. She was in the TV version of The Goon Show and at the 1954 Royal Variety Performance with the Crazy Gang. Her marriages and domestic complications were avidly reported by the newspapers. Katie Boyle at the BBC TV centre in Shepherd’s Bush in 1961. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images. She was born Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali di Francavilla in Florence. Her parents, Dorothy (nee Ramsden), a Yorkshirewoman, and the Marchese Demetrio Imperiali di Francavilla, an Italian aristocrat, divorced when Katie was five, and her mother returned to the UK. Katie was educated – or failed to be educated, as she was thrown out of four of the six schools she attended, she said – in Switzerland and Italy. Relations with her father, who had custody, were complex. The war was on, with Italy then one of the Axis powers. Her father was a fascist on what he saw as patriotic grounds, while simultaneously hiding allied escaped prisoners of war and partisans’ equipment a few yards away from where he was entertaining Nazi officers. It was small wonder that he had an increasingly unpredictable temper, flying into bouts of violent rage which he sometimes took out on his daughter. When at 18 she had an affair with a married member of the Italian secret police, he locked her in her room for several weeks, later admitting her to a psychiatric hospital. Then, with the allies advancing into Italy and Italy about to change sides, the policeman was executed by partisans. At 20, Katie was sent to Britain and her mother. Her fascination for show business had started at school when, in a class containing the daughters of many aristocrats, she had been more interested in getting to know Marlene Dietrich’s daughter. On a day out in , the author Beverley Nichols saw Katie trying on a hat in Bond Street and asked her to model for the illustrations of his Woman’s Own column, which was that week devoted to how a woman chooses a hat. It set her on her modelling career and when she was offered a schoolgirl part in the 1950 film Old Mother Riley, Headmistress, she immediately agreed. She tended to accept a lot of the work that was offered, including, later, the TV commercials for Camay (“You’ll be a little lovelier each day, with …”) and a part in Dick Whittington at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. Katie Boyle, left, checking the Eurovision Song Contest scores of 1960. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images. In 1947 she had married Richard Boyle, Viscount Boyle, a captain in the Irish Guards who later succeeded as the Earl of Shannon. They divorced in April 1955. She met her second husband, the Lloyd’s underwriter Greville Baylis, just before setting off on a Vogue modelling tour in Australia: he followed her there, and they were married in August 1955. Even after his death in 1976, even after her marriage in 1979 to the Mousetrap impresario Peter Saunders, Boyle claimed to speak to Baylis, always believing that he “felt good” about her third marriage. But it was her journalism that proved to be more long-lasting than her show business career. The Sunday Graphic first asked her in the 50s to write a weekly column on fashion and beauty; for 20 years she ran an agony aunt column in the TVTimes and from the 90s one for animal lovers in Dogs Today. A keen owner of Yorkshire terriers, she was a committee member of Battersea Dogs Home for more than 25 years. 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The Italian-born actress and TV personality was known for fronting the popular competition in the 60s and 70s. 20 Mar 2018, 17:15 Updated : 21 Mar 2018, 0:21. Invalid Date, FORMER Eurovision Song Contest host and actress Katie Boyle, Lady Saunders, has died aged 91. The Italian-born actress and TV personality was known for fronting the popular competition in the 60s and 70s. Her agent, June Ford-Crush, tweeted at 4.30pm today: "I am very sad to announce the death of Katie Boyle (Lady Saunders) who I was proud to represent in the latter days of her working career, and counted her as a friend. "The Italian born actress, TV personality, agony aunt, games show panellist and dog love, died peacefully at home." She presented the 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974 Eurovision Song Contests, all of which were in the UK. The well-known fixture on British screens is said to have died peacefully at home today. I am very sad to announce the death of Katie Boyle (Lady Saunders) who I was proud to represent in the latter days of her working career, and counted as a friend. The Italian born actress, TV personality, agony aunt, games show panellist and dog lover, died peacefully at home. pic.twitter.com/WhgaEkZrtM — June Ford-Crush (@junefordcrush) March 20, 2018. The news of her death was met with sadness as people dubbed her a "Eurovision legend" and "a class act". One person called her "the original Queen of Eurovision" on Twitter, while another said she was "quite simply Ms Eurovision". She was the daughter of an Italian marquis and came to the UK in 1946 to start a modelling career. Lady Saunders appeared in publications such as Vogue and also featured in a number of 1950s films. It is rumoured she hosted the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest without underwear. According to author and historian John Kennedy O'Connors, it had been cut off from under her satin dress just before the show went live. She went on to dip her toe into many other areas of the entertainment industry and had a career that spanned more than six decades. In her capacity as a host she fronted shows such as the Ivor Novello Awards, and she had a long-running radio programme called Katie and Friends on BBC Radio 2. She appeared on panel game shows and programmes including What's My Line? and Juke Box Jury. Lady Saunders was also known as an agony aunt for TV Times Magazine, and for writing a weekly column on fashion and beauty in Sunday Graphic. She was a guest of honour at several Eurovision fan club conventions, and played herself in a BBC play. Lady Saunders was divorced once and widowed twice. She married Richard Bentinck Boyle in 1947 but this was dissolved in 1955. MOST READ IN NEWS. HOME FRONT. 'ONE DAY AT A TIME' ABSOLUTE CARNAGE. 'BROKEN' PEACE SHATTERED. OH BABY. Later that year she married Greville Baylkis, a racehorse owner, who died in 1976. 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Lady Saunders, who was married to the late producer of The Mousetrap Sir Peter Saunders, was best known for presenting the music spectacular in the 1960s and 1970s. The Italian-born British star's career started as a model, before working as a continuity announcer for the BBC in the 1950s. She went on to dip her toe into many other areas of the entertainment industry and had a career that spanned more than six decades. In her capacity as a host she fronted shows such as the Ivor Novello Awards, and she had a long-running radio programme called Katie and Friends on BBC Radio 2. She appeared on panel game shows and programmes including What's My Line? and Juke Box Jury. Lady Saunders was also known as an agony aunt for TV Times Magazine, and for writing a weekly column on fashion and beauty in Sunday Graphic. A lover of dogs, she was a committee member of Battersea Dogs Home for more than 25 years and wrote Battersea Tales - stories of rescues from the dogs home in 1997. Born in Italy in 1926, the former Vogue model came to prominence in the 1950s when panel games were the hit of the nation's one and only channel. Her English rose beauty, despite her Italian heritage, plus her charm and cut-glass accent were the perfect combination for the BBC at the time. When the Eurovision song contest began to grab audience attention, she seemed the obvious choice to host it, famed for her poise, unflappability and perfect French. It was her highest calibre role, which she performed four times across 13 years when the event was held in the UK - most notably in 1974 in Brighton when a little known Swedish foursome who went by the name of Abba triumphed. She married three times and wrote about her life in showbiz in 1980 in autobiography What This Katie Did. In 1998 she told the Press Association: "My whole career really started by accident. There was a time when I was on the BBC three times a week - it seems very strange to think of that now, but it was the only thing people watched." ​Battersea Dogs and Cats Home wrote on Twitter: "We're saddened to hear that Katie Boyle, one of our lifelong supporters, has passed away. READ MORE. "Katie was a devoted dog lover and a much-loved TV personality who contributed so much time and energy to helping Battersea during her 25 years as a Trustee. She will be greatly missed." Broadcaster Jonathan Ross wrote Boyle was a "class act". He added on Twitter: "Sad to hear that Katie Boyle has gone. I worked with her once and she was lovely." Have your say. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. VIEW COMMENTS. What This Katie Did by Katie Boyle. You can request a copy in print. Click here to submit your request via email. Read in PDF online or download. 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