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Dateline: 28th December, 2007
Pat Kirkwood (1921 - 2007) Musical star Pat Kirkwood has died at the age of 86. Born in Lancashire, she died in a nursing home in Ilkley on Christmas Day. Hailed as Britain's first war time star for her appearance in the revue Black Velvet at the London Hippodrome, she went on to appear in a string of musicals by Noël Coward, Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein, most recently at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1994 in Noel/Cole - Let’s Do It, which ran for ten weeks. In May 1954 she was the first female singer to have her own television series, the hour long The Pat Kirkwood Show. She was one of the most glamorous stars on British musical comedy and Kenneth Tynan once described her legs as "the eighth wonder of the world". She is rumoured to have had an affair with Prince Philip whom she met in 1948 in her dessing room at the Hippodrome when Princess Elizabeth was eight months pregnant with Prince Charles. They dined together at Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in Mayfair and were then seen dancing together for several hours at the Milroy nightclub. It is also alleged that Prince Philip gave her a white Rolls Royce. She always denied the allegations and recently, on being asked to take part in a TV documentary on Prince Philip, said, "It is an episode that has done me an immense amount of harm." And certainly it is widely belived that the rumour lost her any chance of official recognition in the Honours list.
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