Prague is one of the loveliest cities in the world - beautiful, historic and very romantic. And for actress Tara Fitzgerald, star of The Camomile Lawn, Sirens and Brassed Off, it is also a city full of precious memories.

She got to know it while making Dark Blue World, a forthcoming film about a British woman who falls in love with a Czech airman during the Second World War and returns with him to his own country only to fall foul of the 1948 Communist Revolution.

But while filming one romantic drama, Tara experienced her own. “I was on location,” she explains, “when my now husband (American actor and director Johnny Shahnazarian) came out to stay. On my day off, we were wandering together around Prague’s small, historic, labyrinthine centre, when, in the middle of a cobbled street Johnny quite spontaneously proposed.”

“We dashed into the nearest jewellery shop,” she smiles, holding up her silver engagement ring set with a Bohemian garnet. “And that night we celebrated at one of Prague’s best restaurants, Barock, feasting on a smorgasbord of Thai/Japanese cuisine, washed down with saké and their world-famous Czech beer!”

For more with Tara Fitzgerald as she gives us a personal guided tour of the city that has come to mean so much to her, see this week’s HELLO! Magazine, on sale now.