Dame Joan Collins and her youthful sister Jackie solely reconciled after her 2002 marriage ceremony.

The 90-year-old actress and her creator sibling – who died in 2015 on the age of 77 – had a tumultuous relationship for a lot of causes, together with that Jackie by no means permitted of Joan’s romances, however after Joan married Percy Gibson, 58, in 2002, they slowly repaired their relationship.

Writing in her memoir, ‘Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends’, Joan stated: “We never confronted each other about our problems, and it was only when I married Percy and she grew to love him, that our rift finally healed.

“I can not deny that, like all siblings, we had our spats of ups and downs (however we by no means turned wherever close to as cataclysmic because the Windsor boys!). But there have been hurts.

“None of these issues were ever discussed, nor, I’m convinced, did Jackie ever fully explain any of them to other people. Yet why should she? Are we supposed to be endlessly devoted to each other, and never disagree or do anything that might upset the other, just because we’re sisters?

““No one – not our associates, not our closest household – will actually know all the things we shared collectively, our bond over a complete lifetime, and the deep abiding love that at all times existed between us and that I nonetheless really feel.”

Joan went on to say that Jackie’s death has left “a void” in her life.

She said: “When Jackie died, Percy and I, like our brother Bill, Jackie’s three daughters, six grandchildren, three sons-in-law and numerous different family and friends, had been bereft.

“Jackie was so liked and admired by so many who her demise was headline information internationally. She even made the duvet of People journal – she would have liked that! We grieved and tried to consolation one another, however Jackie’s demise left a void in all our lives that was unimaginable to fill.”