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Britt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare'

The Swedish actor on her infamous marriage with Peter Sellers, being stuck in London under lockdown – and why there will be no more Bond girls like her

Two days after their first date – which was also their first meeting – the comedian Peter Sellers gave Britt Ekland a dachshund puppy called Pepper.

Ekland had just arrived in London from Sweden to be 20th Century Fox’s next big star. She was 21 years old and living at the Dorchester hotel; a dog was a ridiculous gift, she says. So was Sellers’ previous largesse – every bloom in the hotel’s flower shop. “That was the way he wooed me.”

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