Life's looking up, Dame Harriet
Actor Harriet Walter is one of the few to speak out about the fate of older women. Yet now aged 60 and in the throes of 'wonderful new romance', she has just been made a dame. What next?Although friends had confidently predicted the fact in advance, Harriet Walter insists that it was a genuine surprise when her agent called to say she was going to be made a dame. "I said, don't be silly, I'm not a national treasure."…