Puppet-master who went to war with his real Lady Penelope: How Gerry Anderson was haunted by his divorce from the beauty who voiced his leading lady in Thunderbirds
•Gerry Anderson died yesterday aged 83 after battle with Alzheimer's disease
•Born in 1929 and spent early life in a one-bedroom flat in north-west London
•Married first wife Betty Wrightman in the Fifties and they had two daughters
•But he had affair with Sylvia Thamm and they were married from 1960-1975
•Sylvia voiced Lady Penelope but their split was acrimonious when son was 8
•Wed Mary Robins, a secretary 20 years his junior, in 1981 and had one son
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