![]() His grace and inner stillness worked well for evil General Zod. Stamp was single and enjoying a glorious second half to his career, after coming back from obscurity to appear in the first two Superman films. And it didn’t turn out the way she expected it to.’īy this time Diana’s relationship with Charles had broken down. ‘I saw the sadness in her because she’d gone into her marriage believing – she was a believer in the marriage and all that. And because I wasn’t trying to s**g her we just kind of opened up to each other. I said, “I’d love to have a proper chat with her, why don’t you ask her if she’s up for it?” He asked and she said yes. ‘The relationship came about because my friend Oliver Hoare, the art dealer, knew her. ‘I met her at some function,’ he says dismissively, but actually it was the 1987 premiere of Wall Street, in which he plays the British tycoon Sir Larry Wildman – a character he based on the real-life millionaire Sir James Goldsmith, who at one time was rumoured to be Diana’s true father. Her biographer Andrew Morton claimed they were lovers, but Stamp has never discussed this publicly before. Eye-wateringly so when asked if he is still in the dating game, having been married just onceĪnd he’s not going to hold back today, even revealing what really happened between him and Princess Diana. Most of the time Stamp is honest and direct. I’ve never really let on exactly where I’m at until now.’ ![]() ‘I wrote it after being challenged by my publisher, who said: “Do you still feel the need to be an enigma?” That took my breath away because, in truth, that’s the way I’ve stayed afloat for 55 years. The title comes from a quote by his Indian guru. Stamp dropped out of fame for a while after that, fleeing to the ashrams of India at the end of the Sixties for a spiritual awakening, as described in his fascinating new book, The Ocean Fell Into The Drop. That was when he had dark hair and brooding eyes and Oscar judges, film directors and beautiful women were falling at his feet – and before Jean Shrimpton broke his heart by leaving him. He was nominated for an Oscar for his first film, Billy Budd, and starred in classics including Poor Cow and Far From The Madding Crowd. Slim and graceful, with a laurel wreath of white hair, Stamp is wearing a bottle-green linen suit made for him in Rome in 1968, at the height of his fame. ‘My feeling about sex is that I’ve finally been tossed from the saddle of a horse that I’ve been clinging on to for the past 60 years. How about once a month? The laugh in response is long and hearty. I’ve still got wonderful relationships with women but I’m not looking to get s***ged four times a week,’ says Stamp with that gruff, East End-turned-posh drawl of his. But the legendary actor, who romanced Brigitte Bardot, Julie Christie and the supermodel Jean Shrimpton (and recently had a wife less than half his age) has to admit he is slowing down as a lover. He’s a handsome devil with impeccable manners and a gleam in his cornflower-blue eyes, even at the age of 79. In an uproarious and unflinchingly honest interview, screen icon Terence Stamp reveals how he seduced Bardot, was dumped by Shrimpton, got close to Diana – and why, at 79, he’d rather practise yoga than have sex And it didn’t turn out the way she expected it to.’ I saw the sadness in her because she’d gone into a marriage believing – she was a believer in marriage. Of his friendship with a young Princess Diana, he says: ‘We got on amazingly well. The couple wed when she was 29 and he was 64, but divorced after six years. More recently, Stamp was married to Elizabeth O’Rourke, whom he met in an Australian pharmacy. I wasn’t ready for a twin-soul relationship.’ He laments: ‘She left me because she saw I was a lunatic. The actor was speaking ahead of the publication later this month of his memoir, The Ocean Fell Into The Drop, in which he writes how supermodel Jean Shrimpton captured his heart in the 1960s. Stamp was nominated for an Oscar for his first film, Billy Budd, and starred in classics including Poor Cow and Far From The Madding Crowd
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