""Which Frost did with elan — bringing us to 1974, a year of twists, turns and improbable cliff-hangers even by the standards of Frost’s colourful love life. At the start of the year, he fell in love with Karen Graham, an American model who was to go on to become the ‘face’ of Estee Lauder. They got engaged and Karen
as taken to Beccles, in Suffolk, to meet Frost’s mother Mona — for her approval. Mrs Frost remarked that she was ‘such a nice girl’, even seeking advice on English recipes for her fiancé.‘There’s not a doubt about this one,’ she said. ‘I knew the second I saw her. Oh, she’s just like one of our family.’ But no sooner were the words out of Mrs Frost’s mouth, apparently, than Karen had married another man, Delbert Coleman, a tycoon who ran the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas.
Poor David Frost. What was it about Vegas? Today Miss Graham is 67 and runs a fly fishing business in North Carolina. She could not be contacted this week, but back in 2000, musing about her romance with Frost, she said: ‘I respected David an awful lot and still do. It was a big mistake not marrying him, possibly the biggest of my romantic life.’"