A woman of substance: How Zoë Wanamaker got lucky in love and why her father Sam was her biggest critic
Zoë Wanamaker is no stranger to playing sorely tried wives. Her populous gallery of women in this fix includes, at one end of the social scale, a gutturally Germanic and frizzy-wigged Princess Caroline of Brunswick whose fate " as the arranged spouse of Simon Russell Beale's future George IV (himself already secretly married) " was seen to foreshadow that of Princess Diana in Battle Royal at the National Theatre i…