Dame Helen Mirren eager to honour traits which are ‘just as powerful as beauty’

Dame Helen Mirren eager to honour traits which are ‘just as powerful as beauty’
Dame Helen Mirren dislikes word ‘beauty’ because it excludes majority who aren’t beautiful (Matt Crossick/PA)

Hollywood star Dame Helen Mirren has said the word beauty “excludes the vast majority of us who are not beautiful”.

The Oscar-winning actress, 76, said she was “absolutely gobstruck” to be People magazine’s cover star for the 2022 Beautiful edition.

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