- In Spain, a famous Spanish impresario, Colsada, saw her and made her the star of his revue. Openings in the Spanish musical theatre followed, where she was spotted by Benny Hill.
- Benny Hill discovered her and brought her back home to Britain. He was taking one of his frequent holidays abroad, when he saw her singing in a revue in Madrid. Immediately attracted by her beauty and voice, he was amazed to discover that she was an English girl.
- When she entered show business she took on the surname Davey, from her mother's second husband. This was later changed to Darvey.
- The climax to her long run of solo spots on The Benny Hill Show (1969) was a four-minute sequence of her own devising in which she sang a skillful continuity of four different songs in three languages, Spanish, French and English. She appeared in four different costumes, all of which she designed herself.
- Diana fell down the stairs in her home, and although it was not a dramatic fall it created a linear fracture in the left femur just below her pelvis. A fat embolism resulted due to marrow leakage from the untreated fracture, then traveled to her lung and she went into severe respiratory failure which resulted in her death.
- Daughter of Pamela Cooper, one of the much-admired Windmill Girls.
- Raised and educated in Bristol.
- Her father died when she was only two years old.
- Her first stage appearance came in 1962, as a dancing girl in a pantomime staged in Bath. The following year she became a Butlin's Redcoat, and then she joined a London ballet troupe. This took her out of the country, first to Sweden, then to Spain.
- Actress, singer, and dancer.
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