Coronation Street's Dame Maureen Lipman, 78, ENGAGED 20 years after death of husband

Coronation Street star Dame Maureen Lipman has revealed she's engaged after she popped the question to her partner David Turner while on a train

Coronation Street icon Dame Maureen Lipman is engaged.

The actress, 78, revealed she popped the question to her partner David Turner while on a train. Maureen who is very quiet about her personal life revealed that she popped the question after a glitzy event she attended alongside Queen Camilla. David is Maureen's first love since the death of her partner, retired computer expert Guido Castro, who tragically died in January 2021.

Previously, she was married to former Coronation Street writer Jack Rosenthal from 1974 until his death in 2004. Dame Maureen confirmed her happy news in an op-ed piece, explaining it was a spur-of-the-moment decision while travelling home from the launch of the Queen's son, Tom Parker-Bowles' latest cooking book.

"Later that night my partner David and I decided to tell our children that, with a combined age of 156, we are going to get married," she said. She continued that she had been "against the M word" but realised that it was the festival of Tu B'Av – a Jewish festival where a woman can ask a man to marry her.

Writing for The Spectator, the actress added: "Unable to resist the gag, I slid under the table separating us on to one knee and asked him for his hand. To my surprise and slight panic, he gave it." David and Maureen went on to reveal the news to her children on September 8, the birthday of her first love and husband the late Jack.