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Helen Mirren: How marriage changed me

once a sceptic when it came to marriage, Dame Helen oirran has confessed she’s been converted. The 64-year-old actress admits that marrying her husband, director Taylor Hackford, was best thing she’s ever done. Helen recalls, “I saw marriage as losing my independence. Then, one day, after over a decade together, I just felt it would be right.”

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once unable to see the point of marriage, Helen now can’t imagine not being Taylor’s lawful wife. She says, “He’d given me respect and loyalty and I trusted him 100 percent. But I was terrified it would change our relationship. Then I woke up the morning after the wedding and realised everything had changed – and I loved it. I feel a shiver when I hear Taylor say ‘my wife’ and I get an enormous sense of pleasure when I say ‘my husband’.”

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