Editing Celia Johnson (section)

==Personal life and death==
Johnson was married to Peter Fleming (who during the Second World War became a Lieutenant Colonel in the [[Special Operations Executive]], and who was known as the author of travel literature such as ''[[Brazilian Adventure]]'' and non-fiction works including ''the Siege at Peking'') from 1935 until Fleming's death from a heart attack in 1971, while on a shooting expedition near [[Glencoe, Highland|Glencoe]] in [[Argyll]], Scotland. He was the brother of the [[James Bond]] creator, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Commander, and MI6-SIS Information Research Division (IRD) spy [[Ian Fleming]].

They had three children:
*Nicholas Peter Val Fleming (3 January 1939&nbsp;– 9 May 1995),{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} spent most of his life at the Fleming family home in [[Nettlebed]], Oxfordshire, as a farmer. He was also a journalist, and the author of thriller novels published in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a non-fiction historical work, ''August 1939''. From his early twenties he lived with his partner Christopher Balfour, a merchant banker.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hope |first=Jonathan |title=OBITUARIES: Nichol Fleming|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-nichol-fleming-1585538.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=9 June 1995 |access-date=5 May 2009}}</ref>
*Kate Fleming (born 1946),{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} now Kate Grimond, is married to John Grimond (son of politician [[Jo Grimond]]), former foreign editor of the news magazine ''[[The Economist]]'', now writer-at-large for the publication; the couple have three children. She is the author of ''Celia Johnson: A Biography'' (1991).<!-- ISBN needed -->
*[[Lucy Fleming]] (born Eve Lucinda Fleming, 15 May 1947),{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} is an actress. In the 1970s she starred as Jenny in the [[BBC]]'s [[apocalyptic fiction]] series ''[[Survivors (1975 TV series)|Survivors]]''. She is married to the actor and writer [[Simon Williams (actor)|Simon Williams]].

Since the late 1990s, the two sisters, Kate Grimond and Lucy Fleming, have co-owned the Ian Fleming estate.{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}}

Johnson distanced herself from her acting career while her children were young, preferring to devote her attention to her family. She was described as a woman "always ready to laugh" and "maternal in a light-hearted way" and her daughter recalled that she was often torn between her desire to care for her family and her need to be involved in the "mechanics" of acting.<ref name="Kate Grimond" />

In 1982, she was touring with Sir [[Ralph Richardson]] in [[Angela Huth]]'s ''The Understanding'' and the play's [[West End theatre|West End]] run had been announced. On one of her days off, she was at her home in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, playing [[Contract bridge|bridge]] with friends, when she collapsed from a [[Cerebrovascular accident|stroke]]. She died a few hours later in her home.<ref name="Kate Grimond" /> She left an estate worth £150,557.<ref>Douglas-Home 2004.</ref>

[[File:Dame CELIA JOHNSON 1908-1982 Actress was born here.jpg|thumb|right|Blue plaque for Dame Celia Johnson]]