Actress Jane Seymour's mother dies

Hollywood actress Jane Seymour is on her way to the UK after her mother died from complications following a stroke.

The 56-year-old former Bond girl, a contestant on America's Dancing With The Stars TV series, had to pull out of the results show to travel home.

Her publicist, Dick Guttman, said her mother, Mieke Frankenberg, 92, at her home in Hillingdon, west London.

Frankenberg was born in Holland and lived in Indonesia during the Second World War, where she spent more than three years in a Japanese concentration camp.

After that, she moved to England, married doctor John Frankenberg and had three daughters, Jane, Anne Gould, a homeopathic doctor, and Sally Frankenberg, a travel executive. Her husband died in 1990.

"She was ageless and had the spirit of a lively, effervescent, enthusiastic 21-year-old and only her body let her down," Seymour said in a statement.

"She had been through it all, seen horrors up close and chose to see the light and love of God and mankind in every aspect of life."

Seymour played Solitaire in the James Bond movie Live And Let Die and starred in the television series Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman.