How, erm, traditional
The actor met Ms Hart while filming the Channel 4 series Longitude in 2000, and within a year he was introducing his girlfriend to fellow actors.
For two decades, the actor split his time between her and Lady Gambon, who was said to have initially been devastated by the news of his other relationship and moved out of the home they shared.
However, she then came to terms with the arrangement and moved back.
Eccentric but certainly some traditionality there. But even more traditional:
Sir Michael Gambon has bequeathed his £1.5 million estate to his wife but left nothing to his long-term girlfriend and mother of two of his sons.
The money stays with the legal arrangement, the scarlet woman gets nothing.
Not syaing I approve – or not – but it is all rather traditional….