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Having collected all the pieces of the Key to Time, Romana decided that it was time for her to regenerate. She tried on several bodies, eventually settling for a look the same as Atrian Princess Astra, who she and the Doctor had met on the twin planets of Atrios and Zeos (5F).

The second Romana, a small, laughing, effervescent figure, was much closer to the traditional type of female companion, although she was still the same highly skilled and occasionally temperamental girl that she had been before. This Romana immediately found herself plunged into a dramatic confrontation with her fellow Time Lord's oldest adversaries, the Daleks and the Movellans, on Skaro (5J).

In the new look after regeneration, she helped the Fourth Doctor fight Scaroth in 1979 Paris-France, Lady Adrasta, hordes of Mandrels on the planet Chloris, the Nimon, Skagra while visiting the remote space station Think Tank. She helped defeat Pangol and the Foamasi during a

visit to the entertaimment centre for galactic travellers - the Leisure Hive on the planet Argolis, Meglos, the Marshmen and the Great Vampire on the medieval like planet ruled tyranically by King Zargo and Queen Camilla (5P).

Sometime during their fight against Skagra in Cambridge, England, Romana and the Fourth Doctor became trapped in a time eddy caused by the malfunctioning of Borusa's time scoop. They were freed by Rassilon's intervention, after the other Four Doctors had exposed Borusa (6K).

This new Romana was not as self-important as her previous incarnation, and hence got on much better with the Doctor. They became close friends, as well as travelling companions.

Even though she was ordered to return to Gallifrey, Romana finally left the Doctor deciding to stay in E-space, taking K9 (Mark II), as a gift from the Doctor, with her to aid the Tharils obtain time technology and fight slavery (5S).

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The Honourable Lady Sarah Ward, better known to "Doctor Who" enthusiasts as Lalla Ward, was born to Viscount Bangor and his wife Marjorie who, despite their titles, had worked for the BBC themselves in earlier days. Lalla started out not only wanting to act, but also with a passion for painting and drawing, but in the end it was her love of performing that won out. Although her parents were somewhat surprised by her career choice, they enrolled her in the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Within a month of leaving drama school, Lalla was cast as the vampire 'Helga'in the 1971 movie "Vampire Circus". Her other appearances from that time until her term in "Doctor Who" include parts in "Rosebud" (1975) as 'Margaret' , "The Professionals" (1977) playing 'Jill Haydon'in episode "When The Heat Cools Off" , "Van der Valk" (1972) playing 'Judith Stolle'in the episode"Rainbow Endeth Here", "The Prince and the Pauper" (1978) playing 'Princess Elizabeth', "The Duchess of Duke Street" (1976) as 'Lotte Richards', "Leap in the Dark", and "Who Pays the Ferryman?".

Then Lalla won the part of Princess Astra in the "Doctor Who" adventure "The Armageddon Factor", the final installment in the Key to Time serial. The producers knew that Mary Tamm wanted to retire as Romana, and as several people working on "The Armageddon Factor" had previously worked with Lalla, they suggested her for the part.

Lalla stayed with the program for about two years, finally leaving in "Warriors' Gate".

One of the most talked-about facets of the fourth Doctor- second Romana relationship is the fact that after their onscreen time together ended, their offscreen time together blossomed. In December of 1980, at the Chelsea Registry Office, Tom Baker and Lalla Ward pledged their love for one another in a marriage ceremony. Sadly, the marriage was fated to end after only eighteen months.

Since leaving "Doctor Who" , Lalla has taken part in the stage productions of "The Jeweller's Shop", "The Rehearsal", and in the 1982 TV series "Schoolgirl Chums". Lately, she has more or less given up her acting career to devote time to her husband, author/scientist/biology teacher Richard Dawkins, her step-daughter Juliet, and her side career illustrating books, although she did take a half-day to reprise her role as Romana for "Dimensions in Time".

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