Rush film premiere: James Hunt's ex wife Sarah Lomax says she is happier than ever before Away from the popping flashbulbs, she clung proudly to her sons. The woman who tamed James Hunt had her own remarkable story to tell as she stood with the Hollywood stars and glossy guests at the premiere in Leicester Square of Rush, the film about her impossibly glamorous ex-husband. Divorced from Hunt and remarried, Sarah Lomax subsequently lost her second husband on the very day they were to christen their nine-month-old son. James Hunt's ex-wife Sarah, with their sons Freddie (left) and Tom, pictured at last night's premiere of Rush at The Odeon, Leicester Square The couple got married (left) in Marlborough, Gloucestershire, a year after they met and they had two children, Freddie and Tom. Hunt was previously married to Suzy Miller (right) who went on to marry Richard Burton The couple pictured together in happier times in 1985 at a party for Carmen Film Opera at the Pelican Cafe nightclub, London, four years before they were involved in a bitter divorce Hunt pictured (left) with Sarah in 1983 a year after they met in Spain and the same year (right) at Berkley Square Ball But if she thought life could not deal her another blow, she was wrong. For she is now, at 54, suffering the devastating impact of cancer. She has lost all her hair - but none of her joie de vivre or optimism. "This is the happiest I have felt in my life," says Sarah, who met Lothario Hunt on a beach in Spain in 1982 and became his second wife a year later. His first wife, Suzy Miller went on to wed Hollywood legend Richard Burton. Sarah has said it took her years to get over her bitter divorce from Hunt in 1989 and his sudden death from a heart attack in 1993, because he was the father of Tom, now 26, and Freddie, 25. She went on to wed army officer Chris Jeffery, a divorcee based in Nepal, and divided her time between the Himalayas and Hampshire, giving birth to a third son, Charlie, now 14. Chris collapsed with a stroke while on leave from Kosovo as they were preparing for Charlie's christening. James Hunt (right) talks to Niki Lauda (left) during the 1977 Belgian Grand Prix where Hunt finished in seventh place Racing legend: Hunt holds the winners trophy after a home victory during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1977 Then in January last year Sarah, a clay pigeon shot, felt sore under her arm, which she put down to shooting 100 clays. It was, in fact, breast cancer. "It's at stage four now, but I am made of stern stuff," Sarah tells me from her home in West Sussex, where Tom has started a company selling James Hunt merchandise. And Freddie wants to follow his father on the track. It's not a problem. I am very upbeat and positive - although it's too late for radiotherapy or a mastectomy. But we all get different journeys in life, don't we? I did have a V & V day when I was diagnosed - that's what I call a valium and vicar day. But if you keep your ego out of it, you keep the coffin at bay. Of Rush, she says: "It's a fantastic film. I don't feature because it ends in 1976 when James won the world championship - and I was still at boarding school. One of the late Sir David Frost's most stormy TV interviews was with Denis Healey, then Labour's Defence Secretary, who continued to shout at the presenter as the credits rolled on ITV's The Frost Programme. Lord Healey, now 96, remembers the 1968 encounter, in which he was made to look evasive, but insists that Frost was doing most of the shouting as the show ended. "It was hot and heavy," he tells me. It was live and David lost his cool. I suppose I did as well. But we did make it up and became friends. Neither Tony Blair, who is an advisor to Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, nor Prince Andrew who is a regular visitor - he sold his marital home to Nazarbayev's son-in-law - made it to the wedding of the dictator's grandson, Aysultan. But well-travelled showbusiness agent Jonathan Shalit, pictured right, was an unexpected figure among the 400 guests to see Sandhurst graduate Aysultan, 20, marry Alima Boranbayeva, also 20, an art student in London. Shalit represents shadow dance troupe Attraction, winners of Britain's Got Talent, whom the President had booked to perform at the reception. "It was the most sumptuous event I have ever been to - apparently, it cost $6 million," Shalit tells me. The wedding breakfast included horse fillet stuffed with spinach and ricotta, a Kazakh delicacy, unfortunately served as guests watched a video of the groom riding in national costume. "Out of respect to my hosts, I ate it," adds Jonathan. I was assured Tony Blair has also eaten and enjoyed this delicacy. Borat would have been proud of him. Ahead of this month's ITV broadcast about Prince William's work with conservation charity Tusk, another royal filmmaker has been lamenting that Buckingham Palace will not permit his acclaimed documentary to be reshown. It is more than 20 years since the BBC screened Edward Mirzoeff's Elizabeth R, which marked the Queen's 40th anniversary as a monarch in 1992. It attracted a huge audience and won an international Emmy award. Says Mirzoeff, 77, who was subsequently appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order: "The BBC owns the actual film tape, but the Queen owns the content - and she has not allowed it to be shown again. I remember at the time making a song and dance about it, but I was told the Palace did not want to spoil the next film [about her]. Mirzoeff recalled that the contract between the BBC and the Palace for Elizabeth R ran to 40 pages. An offer Fiona can easily refuse About to star on this year's Strictly Come Dancing show, actress Fiona Fullerton, pictured right, has just been given the runaround. She is selling her home, a fabulous seven-bedroom, Grade II-listed former vicarage beside the Thames in Gloucestershire. Fiona bought it in 1999 for less than £1 million, but she and her husband, Neil Shackell, have spent as much again renovating the house. It's on the market for £2.75 million and they thought they had sold it when a family came for a fourth viewing. "They had six children and we all got on really well," says Fiona. My husband took the kids out in a boat on the river, I opened some wine, and then the kids threw themselves in the pool. It was like a party. But three-and-a-half hours and four bottles of wine later, the strangers disappeared. After five days, they made a ridiculous offer. She adds: "Do you think I should send them a bill?" The birth of Prince George has made business go with a bang for the Queen's Balmoral butcher, Sheridan's. It has already sold more than 6,000 specially created sausages to celebrate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child. The venison and heather herb creation has been named the Strathearn Sausage - after William and Kate's Scottish title, the Earl and Countess of Strathearn. "We chose the flavour because it was a boy - if it had been a girl, we'd have had something a bit more delicate with pork and honey," says co-owner Barry Florence. We tried out different flavours until we got it down to two. We made one to celebrate the wedding of Charles and Camilla. But this is our first to celebrate a royal baby. We do weddings and births - but not divorces. My congratulations to Paul Stewart, who has returned to conquer the mountain where he was paralysed in a snowboarding accident. I told in July how he was attempting the IronSpine Challenge of swimming two-and-a-half miles, cycling 112 miles, walking 26 miles and climbing 200ft up a peak in La Plagne in the French Alps, where he was injured in a 200ft fall. Paul, 31, son of stockbroker and racing figure Andy Stewart, not only completed the task, he actually climbed 800ft, a remarkable achievement for a young man who was told he would never walk again after his 2008 accident. Says Paul: "What I am most proud of is that I managed to turn a tragic event into a happy one."