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Audrey Hepburn will get blue plaque in London – as listing of honourees revealed

By Editorial Board Published February 13, 2025 3 Min Read
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Audrey Hepburn will get blue plaque in London – as listing of honourees revealed

Audrey Hepburn and glam rock musician Marc Bolan are among the many stars being honoured with blue plaques celebrating their “profound impact”.

Plaques will even honour novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican author and campaigner Una Marson.

The blue plaque scheme has been operating since 1866.

Hepburn’s plaque will go up in Mayfair, a high-end neighbourhood of London the place the actress landed her Oscar-winning position as Princess Anne in 1953 romance movie Roman Vacation, starring alongside Gregory Peck.

The actress was despatched to a boarding college in England by her dad and mom, Irish-English businessman James Hepburn Ruston and a Dutch-Hungarian-French noblewoman, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra.

She has 4 Academy Award greatest actress nods for romantic comedies Sabrina and Breakfast At Tiffany’s, drama The Nun’s Story, and horror Wait Till Darkish.

Shortly earlier than she died aged 63 in 1993, she was introduced the British Academy’s Particular Award by the Princess Royal.

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The English Heritage blue plaque to Diana, Princess of Wales, as pictured in 2021 in Outdated Brompton Street, London. Pic: PA

English Heritage curatorial director, Matt Thompson, stated: “2025 marks an exciting year for the Blue Plaques Scheme as we honour these outstanding individuals who transformed the cultural fabric of London.

“From literature and artwork to bounce and music, these figures helped form the London we all know at this time.

“Their contributions not only had a profound impact on their fields but also continue to inspire generations.”

T Rex frontman Bolan shall be marked with a plaque at one among his west London addresses, whereas English Nationwide Ballet co-founder Markova is about to be honoured at her childhood dwelling in Muswell Hill.

Get It On hitmaker Bolan died aged 29 in 1977 when his automobile smashed right into a tree in south-west London.

Marc Bolan. File pic: PA

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Marc Bolan. File pic: PA

The placement for a plaque commemorating Jamaican author Marson, claimed by the BBC to be its first black producer on the payroll who would go on to develop Caribbean Voices, a part of the Calling The West Indies collection, is but to be chosen.

The blue plaques, which want the proprietor of the constructing to approve them, are set to be put in all through this 12 months.

Earlier honourees embody Princess Diana, Ready for Godot playwright Samuel Beckett, and Nice Expectations creator Charles Dickens.

In 2024, the scheme was formally expanded exterior of the capital, with the girl credited as the primary black matron within the NHS, Daphne Steele, changing into the principal honouree with a Yorkshire plaque.

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