She says: “I never had ambitions to be an actress. I never even had ambitions to be a model. I think my mum thought a nice career for me would have been a window dresser in a shop.” There was one near-incident, in fact, involving a Hollywood producer who had rented the whole top floor of Claridge’s hotel in London. “I walked in, and I ran out.” Why? “He was with his girlfriend, but there was something wrong. Something I didn’t care for. I just made my excuses and ran. It was an instinctive thing.” She declines to elaborate, but mentions the film she was there to discuss: Two for the Road, the Stanley Donen-directed romcom starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney.

Summary: For its age, this is a very above average rum with an excellent aroma and a very good taste. It is an excellent choice at a price of around 35 EUR (Czech). Didn’t her religious parents object to their only child getting into the scanty end of modelling? “I think they were pleased that I found a career that I enjoyed. I had dyslexia which, for a long time, really undermined my confidence. I think my mother hoped I would become a window dresser.” She was cast in Dracula A.D. 1972 and later starred in The Spy Who Loved Me with Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, springboarding her to a career that has really never stopped.But Munro’s big acting break, in 1972, was thanks not to such screen work but her continuing efforts for booze and seamen. James Carreras, head of Hammer horror, had also been transfixed by a Lamb’s Navy Rum billboard. As a result, she became – like Ingrid Pitt, Joanna Lumley, Kate O’Mara – fated to spend aeons being nibbled by gaunt men with false teeth. I loved the job,” she says. “We had shoots in all kinds of exotic places.” And Cornwall. “I remember being in the sea in the winter. Not a good day.” But after romping with Hasselhoff in space in Starcrash, whose spin-off merchandise includes a c ollectible Caroline Munro ray-gun-waving action figure (do leather bikini bottoms feature holsters as standard? Sure, why not?), she changed course. In the slasher film Maniac she played a photographer romanced by a New York serial killer who scalps his victims. It remains something of a cult favourite, although at the time it attracted some interest from some British police forces as a putative video nasty.

Caroline grew up in Richmond, South West London, and then moved with her parents to Rottingdean, a pretty village in Sussex, where her gran lived. She says: “Rottingdean was an idyllic place to grow up, and I would go across the fields each morning to get to school. Not in a great hurry, mind. I didn’t like school and school didn’t like me.” In No Time to Die, Daniel Craig wears two pairs of sunglasses provided by Vuarnet. In Jamaica he sports the Vuarnet Legend 06 model, while later in the film he is wearing the Vuarnet Edge 1613. She says: “The next thing I heard was my portrait had won the contest. And suddenly, I was the ‘Face of 1966’.” She left school with two O-Levels in French and Art. She says: “That wasn’t going to get me very far, so I started going to classes at Brighton College of Art.”Caroline, who was a hostess on game show 3-2-1 with Ted Rogers and Lynda Lee Lewis in the 1980s, also appears every Friday night on Talking Pictures TV, introducing old horror movies, and in July will appear at Christchurch, Dorset, as part of a weekend of Talking Pictures-organised events. Although she loves visiting the US, she was never tempted to live there. She says: “I had the chance to go, and Cubby thought I would do very well in America. But I had my parents here, I had my life here and doing a lot of work in Europe. I had to follow my heart and I said no. Hollywood wasn’t for me.”

Tasting notes. A dark rum character with the smooth and light body notes of gold. A soft and sweet entrance with vanilla and caramel flavours, followed by toasted marshmallow and a natural spice finish.

The reason was that Caroline is dyslexic, which wasn’t diagnosed. Instead, the school branded her “slow”.