Article: My fairmother; All little boys idolise their mothers, but what happens when the whole world does, too?You set yourself up as the guardian of her memory. Annabel Rivkin talks to Audrey Hepburn's eldest son Sean.

Byline: ANNABEL RIVKIN

What must it be like to be the son of feminine perfection? To be the child of the 20th century's most enduring fashion icon; a film star revered for her beauty, her goodness and, of course, her thinness. Talking to me from his Tuscan house, his accent self-confessedly Eurotrashy from years at Swiss boarding school, is Sean Ferrer-Hepburn, Audrey's eldest son.

Thank goodness he's a boy: at 45, his broad, bear-like figure is the product of some powerful genes that would, one imagines, be less welcome to a girl battling to come to terms with her mother's image. Sean, however, embraces everything about his mother's legacy to the point ...

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