Letter: Jean Alexander displayed great qualities of humour and loyalty
When the Coronation Street star Jean Alexander accompanied a member of the Friends of York Opera, Helen Wilkinson, to an aftershow party in the early 1990s, I found her in the kitchen, up to her elbows in the sink, doing the washing up. She was only too happy to be treated as just another supporter, a friend of a friend. At the Quaker funeral in 2006 of Donald Bodley, director of the city's Theatre Royal when Jean wa…