There’s something quite remarkable about Dame Maureen Lipman. During her almost eight decades, the actor has had more than her fair share of grief. Her husband of 30 years, the playwright Jack Rosenthal – father to children Adam and Amy – died of cancer in 2004 aged 72. She then lost her subsequent partner, Guido Castro, who had a form of Parkinson’s disease, in 2021 after he contracted COVID-19.
But despite her losses, the
