Biography

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.

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.

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.