Actress and comedian Dame Maureen Lipman, 78, recently got engaged to her partner David Turner, who is also 78. She proposed to him as a joke on a train, and to her surprise, he said yes. The couple, with a combined age of 156, is planning to tie the knot. Dame Maureen had previously been hesitant about marriage but was inspired to propose on the minor festival of Tu B’Av, a day when a Jewish woman can ask a man to marry her.
Dame Maureen expressed joy in finding love in her 70s after the loss of her husband, Jack Rosenthal, in 2004 and her partner of 13 years, Guido Castro, in 2020. She announced her engagement on what would have been Rosenthal’s birthday and shared the news with their loved ones. The couple even invited two Metropolitan Police officers who had helped recover her stolen car to the wedding, as they had formed a connection during the incident.
This engagement comes after Dame Maureen’s return to dating, as she had previously written about her experience of going on a date in a column last year.
