Sean Connery's intense 40-year love affair with wife Micheline Roquebrune

Sean Connery and his wife Micheline Roquebrune. (Courtesy)

Sir Sean Connery died aged 90 on October 31. And the actor leaves behind his wife of 40 years Micheline Roquebrune. Sean and French native Micheline had an intense and passionate love that began when they met in 1970 at a golf tournament in Morocco, after Sean split from his first wife Diane Cilento. Recalling their first encounter, Micheline - who had two husbands prior to Sean - told The Sun in 2011 that she did not know he was an A-list actor.

Micheline told how she noticed Sean's "fine physique" but "didn’t know who he was or anything about him." Proving she knew he was special, she added: “Then I dreamed I saw this man. I was in his arms. And I thought ‘At last, peace. The next day I went back to the tournament and that was that!” At the start of their relationship the couple could not speak the same language.