the daughter of poet Sir Stephen Spender. Oscar's mother, an Australian artist, was the Dame Edna star's third wife. Soraya Khashoggi is the former wife of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

But after Dame Edna Everage pilloried Spanish speakers, the joke backfired on her alter ego, comedian Barry Humphries. In Dame Edna's satirical agony column in Vanity Fair magazine she hit out at ...