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
Raquel Sánchez-Silva Raquel Sánchez-Silva Raquel Sánchez Silva (born 13 January 1973 in Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain) is a Spanish television conductor and journalist. After studying journalism, she started working for a local television in Plasencia. After that, she was a news anchor on Telemadrid and she started working for Canal+ ("Noche de los Oscars", "La hora wiki") and Cuatro ("Soy lo que como", "Noche Cuatro", "Idénticos", "Noche Manga", "Oído cocina", a special episode of "Supernanny", and special shows about series such as "House" and "Grey’s Anatomy"). When Cuatro was merged into the Mediaset España group, she started working in reality shows on Telecinco.