Diana Melly, who has died aged 87, was the widow of the flamboyant jazz singer and journalist George Melly, with whom she shared an open marriage that survived for “45 long years”, as she put it, ...

She rejected the label ‘long-suffering wife’ as inaccurate, and was irritated to be greeted at a party with ‘Hello, Diana, where’s George?’ Diana Melly, who has died aged 87, was the ...