Relationships and Personal Life
Windsor has married three times:
- Ronnie Knight, Krays associate (married 2 March 1964, divorced January 1985)
- Stephen Hollings, actor (married 12 April 1986 in Jamaica, divorced 1995)
- Scott Mitchell, former actor and recruitment consultant (married 8 April 2000)
During the 1960s, she also had a brief relationship with footballer George Best.
She had a well publicised affair with Sid James.
In her autobiography, All of Me, Windsor talks about her five abortions, the first three of which took place before the age of 21, the last when she was 42. She has said that she never wanted children as a result of her father rejecting her.
She was a real-life landlady when she ran a pub called the Plough at Winchmore Hill, Buckinghamshire with her second husband, Stephen Hollings.
Over the years Windsor has made her home in a variety of locations. Amongst them, Sunday Times photographer Michael Ward's autobiography records her as living in Grand Parade, Harringay, in the early 1960s.
In August 2010, Windsor was given the Freedom of the City of London, and in November 2010, she was honoured by the City of Westminster at a tree planting and plaque ceremony.
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