In another Christmas Private
Passions special, Michael Berkeley meets the inimitable
Lady Pilar Woffington , exotic Agentinian-born society beauty and former wife of the British ambassador to the Hague. Twice widowed in tragic domestic accidents, she is now using some of her vast wealth to indulge her passion for opera in the grand style of Glyndebourne and Garsington by having an opera house constructed at her home, Gadley Manor. It has not gone unnoticed, however, that Lady Woffington is particularly fond of productions which involve snow scenes and, as Michael Berkeley points out, the snow is often of a suspiciously powdery nature.... Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm