Coronation Street star engaged as she pops question to partner years after tragic death
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCoronation Street star Dame Maureen Lipman has announced she is engaged. The actress has revealed that she popped the question to her partner David Turner while on a train.
Dame Maureen, who is currently playing Evelyn Plummer in the ITV soap, is usually very quiet about her personal but has revealed she asked David to marry her as they headed home following a glitzy event she attended alongside Queen Camilla.
David is Maureen's first love since the death of her partner, retired computer expert Guido Castro, who tragically died in January 2021 after contracting Covid.
Previously, she was married to former Corrie writer Jack Rosenthal from 1974 until his death in 2004. READ MORE: Coronation Street's Jenny Connor star 'hasn't changed' as she shares rare snap with husband READ MORE: Read more of our Coronation Street stories here Dame Maureen confirmed her happy news in an op-ed piece, explaining it was a spur-of-the-moment decision while travelling home from the launch of the Queen's son, Tom Parker-Bowles' latest cooking book, the Mirror reports. "Later that night my partner David and I decided to tell our children that, with a combined age of 156, we are going to get married," she said.
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