Sam projected an uncomplicated sense of accessibility: an illusion, for sure, especially in the light of what we know now, but an illusion so persuasive that a number of her most loyal fans have never married, confident that one day she will trot down the aisle towards them, though everyone else thought she'd end up living splendidly in Cheshire or Berkshire with a footballer or a property developer and a batch of nippers. But that wasn't quite what Sam had in mind.