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Feb 15, 2010 · You always lie," retorted his partner, Martin Hensler, who was there at the dinner. With tears pouring down his cheeks, Gielgud insisted he was telling the truth.
Aug 27, 2009 · Even during his last relationship with Martin Hensler, a mysterious and aggressive Hungarian who was his live-in companion for more than 30 years, Gielgud still hankered after other men.
Oct 28, 1993 · The garden is the invention and preserve of his companion, Martin Hensler. Walking through his ornate sitting room, double high with two banks of windows and filled with beautiful objects, he ...
Gielgud's partner, Martin Hensler, died in 1999. After this, Gielgud went into a physical and psychological decline; he died at home on 21 May 2000, at the age of 96. At his request there was no memorial service, and his funeral at All Saints' Church, Wotton Underwood, was private, for family and close friends.
Martin Hensler was a chef, secretary, gardner, and was long-term lover of Sir John Gielgud from 1975 to Martin's death in 1998. Sir John bought his house in Wotton Underwood in Buckinghamshire and lived there with Martin Hensler, for over 25 years, even if their relationship has begun in 1962, when Gielgud picked up Martin, a designer exiled ...
John Gielgud met his last love, Martin Hensler, at an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in the 1960s. They kept in touch, and Hensler moved in with Gielgud six years later. They remained a couple for over 30 years until Gielgud's death.
Nov 1, 2011 · In Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters, theatre historian Richard Mangan has compiled reams of Gielgud’s extant letters from 1912 to 1999, which offer a one-sided conversation with everyone from Martin Hensler, Gielgud’s longtime lover, to Judith Anderson and Noël Coward.
