Susan had started to accept that she was going to grow old alone having lurched from one romantic catastrophe to another. Then, amazingly, three months after her 50th birthday, along came James, a freelance producer and a former ITV commissioning editor.

Almost six years have gone by since they met and James recently steered her into her favourite jewellers, Nicholas Wylde, and told her to order the ring of her dreams. Susan is to be a blushing bride at the age of 57 when they marry next year at a chateau in the south of France.

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