White plaque for West End star to launch anti-drug campaign

First of new colour plaques for celebrities who died from drug abuse commemorates Noel Coward friend Billie CarletonThe dead body of early 20th-century West End star Billie Carleton was discovered by her maid in her apartment at the Savoy the morning after a victory ball at the Royal Albert Hall. London's aristocracy had attended en masse to celebrate the end of the first world war. Now, almost a century later, Carleton's death is the first to be marked with a white plaque as part of a new campa...

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