"Frost was keen to put this second jilting at the altar behind him, and quickly got in touch with the actress Alexandra Bastedo, whom he’d met a few times on the London scene. In June 1974, the pair were photographed at a film premiere. ‘We were both on the rebound at the time,’ recalls Alexandra, now 67, who runs an animal rescue charity in East Sussex. ‘I’d just come out of a romance with Omar Sharif, who was married to someone else, and David had just finished with Karen Graham. We went out a few times.
‘We knew we’d be photographed (at the premiere) and thought it would be a good way for both of us to put these two experiences behind us, make people forget about them. But we did like each other. ‘David was terrific company, very kind, very thoughtful. He was lovely, very amusing. I was very shy and lacking in confidence at the time and I hung on to his every word. ‘If he said he was going to call, he’d call. He didn’t play games.’
The romance fizzled but, as was common with so many of Frost’s flings, they remained lifelong friends."