When Reverend Richard Coles announced the death of his beloved partner, David, condolences flooded in. But as he grieved, he not only had the sadness of losing the love of his life, Richard also felt burdened with a secret.
His darling David had died of alcoholism. The Strictly Come Dancing vicar wanted to keep that painful detail private so people would remember the David he loved – kind, generous, warm and funny – and not the way he died.
Richard explains: “I often think if someone dies of drink as people used to say, that people filed them under a sort of tragic, squalid death.
David was so much more than that. “I wanted to get a sense of why David was so important to those who loved him before we got to a discussion of what killed
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