I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad, I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.