Overview

• In a new Observer interview, Margolyes says she and Sutherland will live together in Italy, expressing a wish to “quietly subside into old age” as a couple.
• The pair have maintained a relationship of nearly six decades while largely residing separately, with Margolyes in London and Sutherland in Amsterdam.
• The Evening Standard reports the couple plan to base themselves in Tuscany, with the newspaper saying a local couple will help care for them.
• Margolyes cites recent health challenges, including a transcatheter aortic valve replacement in 2023 and spinal stenosis, and notes she is registered disabled and uses mobility aids.
• She rejects earlier claims that she was close to death as exaggerated and “deliberate,” adding that she remains mentally “fairly crisp.”