Raquel Turner Raquel Turner Rachel "Raquel" Turner (formerly Slater; born 4 June 1957) is a fictional character from the BBC television sit-com "Only Fools and Horses", in which she was Del Boy's longtime girlfriend. She was portrayed by Tessa Peake-Jones. With "Only Fools and Horses" moving into its sixth series, writer John Sullivan wanted Del Boy to start looking for more mature women, rather than continually chasing 20-year-olds, and to have a long-term relationship, so he came up with the character Raquel for the 1988 Christmas special episode, "Dates". During the episode, she was introduced to Del via a dating agency and
Cyclone Raquel while it was the third tropical cyclone on record in the Australian region during July. However, both records are considered patchy, as it is possible that tropical cyclones were missed by forecasters prior to satellite monitoring being introduced, while several tropical lows have also been monitored during July. The two tropical cyclones that were previously monitored in the Australian region during July, were Cyclone Lindsay of 1996 and an unnamed cyclone of 2007, both of which formed in the Indian Ocean. Cyclone Raquel Tropical Cyclone Raquel was the first tropical cyclone to exist within the South Pacific Ocean during the