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    Michelle Davies

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    Michelle Davies is a freelance journalist and has written several Life Stories from Mary Quant to Tina Turner for British Marie Claire (amongst other features). Davies is an accomplished author with one crime novel under her belt and has also written for titles such as Essentials, YOU and Stylist. Her last staff job before going freelance was as Editor-at-Large at Grazia and she was previously Features Editor at heat. She began her career straight from school at 18, working as a trainee reporter on her home-town newspaper, the Bucks Free Press.

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    Tina Turner on stage during her concert at Wembley Stadium in London, England, as part of her Wildest Dreams World Tour, 20th July 1996. Commencing in the spring of 1996 The Wildest Dreams Tour would last for 16 months, and included more than 250 concert dates in Europe, North America and Australasia
    Tina Turner: ‘My legacy is that I stayed the course… from beginning to the end because I believed in something inside me’

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      Mary Quant, the style icon who changed the face of '60s fashion, has passed away at the age of 93

      She revolutionised fashion and caused a ‘youthquake’ with her miniskirts and bold patterns.

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      Farewell Queen Elizabeth II: A lifetime of duty and love

      As we mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II - the longest-serving monarch in British history - we reflect on her legacy and what we, her subjects, taught her about putting on a brave face

      By Michelle Davies

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