Crafty Cockney: Life lessons from legendary screen star Michael Caine

There may now be more funerals than birthdays but at 85, Michael Caine is enjoying every moment, as Hannah Stephenson discovers Welcoming me into his penthouse flat overlooking London’s Chelsea Harbour, Michael Caine is clearly relishing life in his 80s.

Welcoming me into his penthouse flat overlooking London’s Chelsea Harbour, Michael Caine is clearly relishing life in his 80s.

Shelves are lined with framed pictures of the award-winning actor and his family — the smiling faces of his three grandchildren (on whom he dotes and who call him ‘Pa’), snaps of him holding one of his two Oscars, with his wife Shakira, a petite and beautiful tour de force who is bustling around in the background today.