A brief reader-letter response to Rachael Stirling’s account of eating some of her mother Diana Rigg’s ashes.
Baby talk | Ashes to ashes | A simple life | Clean sweep from the 70s | Manchester streets To add to the letters of support for Rachael Stirling ( 16 October ) after she revealed that she had eaten some of the ashes of her mother, Diana Rigg, I remember Diana being interviewed by Michael Parkinson shortly after Rachael’s birth , where she revealed that she was so besotted with her newborn that she felt an almost overwhelming desire to nibble on her. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gosling. P…