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.