Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan will be commemorated with Blue Plaques in London later in 2025.
English Heritage, which runs the Blue Plaque scheme, announced the late Breakfast at Tiffany's actor and glam rocker among a handful of other names to be celebrated this year. Hollywood star Hepburn — who was born in Belgium and lived out later life in Switzerland — spent a stint during her early career living at 65 South Audley Street in Mayfair (this was around the same time she made a very brief cameo in the 1951 Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob). Though it's not been confirmed by English Heritage, we'd assume the plaque will be displayed here, a couple of doors down from an existing plaque for educator, florist and novelist Constance Spry.
T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan — who died after his car ploughed into a tree in Barnes in 1977 — already has a number of plaques in London, including at Golders Green Cemetery and at one of his former digs in Stoke Newington. There's also a 'tree shine' to the rock star at the site of his tragic death. In 2025, however, Bolan will be awarded with an official English Heritage Blue Plaque, at "one of his west London addresses" (likely his last home, at 142 Upper Richmond Road, not far from where he died).
Bolan and Hepburn's plaques will be joined by a number of others in 2025, including those dedicated to ballerina Alicia Markova; Jamaican poet, playwright, broadcaster and campaigner Una Marson; and the artist Graham Sutherland, who pissed off Winston Churchill with a portrait of him in 1954.
