The Sunday Times, the Homeland actor has penned a fitting tribute to the star, calling her "the meteor in our life". Damian and Helen got married in 2007 and had two children together; Manon, 14, and Gulliver, 13.
He said that while the world was paying its respects to the late Duke of Edinburgh this weekend, he wanted to remember the life of "m’Duchess, my Little One" who he said was "royalty in her own right".
And he admitted that while the tributes had poured in from those remembering her acting career, he wanted to write a more personal message to the person who was "an even more brilliant person than she was an actress".
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