Lee Everett Alkin

Lee Everett Alkin (born Audrey Valentine Middleton; 14 February 1937 – 24 February 2022) was a British businesswoman and self-proclaimed spiritual healer who was previously a pop singer and celebrity psychic working under the stage name Lady Lee.

Life in showbusiness Born in Sheffield as Audrey Valentine Middleton, she moved to London in 1958 after the breakdown of her first marriage to local footballer, Alan Bradshaw. She had fallen in love with aspiring rock star, Alex Wharton, and followed him where he formed the band Most Brothers. The relationship did not last long, though she found herself a job singing at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho, where Cliff Richard had been discovered. She was spotted here by pop music impresario Larry Parnes. Katherine Kelly played Lee in The Best Possible Taste, a BBC drama about Kenny Everett shown in 2012.

Everett was a friend of Dusty Springfield, Elton John and Billie Jean King; the latter two were among those she questioned about supposed past lives for a book she published in 1996.

Everett met the actor John Alkin at a house party thrown by Richard Branson. They began collaborating on an interest in past life regression therapy and mindfulness, and in 1982 they opened the "House of Spirit", a "healing centre" in Bayswater, London. They also started the "Chilliqueen" condiments company, which wound down when Everett turned 80 in 2017.

Following the death of Springfield, in 1999, she began caring for Nicholas, a cat who Springfield "willed" to her when she became sick with cancer, at the apartment she shared with Alkin, in Hollywood, California, US. The cat had been with Springfield for 13 years, with the cat reported to sleep on affects from Springfield, ate "tinned baby food", was comforted by Springfield's songs, was walked three times a day. and had a "high indoor tree house studded with hearts" in which he lived. While Nicholas was originally separated from her Everett's cat, at the time, Purrdie, it was reported that she was arranging a "marriage" between the two cats.

Lee Everett Alkin died from cancer on 24 February 2022, at the age of 85.