Dame Judi Dench has said that pursuing a healthy sex life should not be neglected by her fellow octogenarians.
Another study found that 74% of women and 72% of men between 75 and 85 said satisfactory sex was essential to maintaining a relationship.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Dench said Victoria’s infatuation with the clerk was an interesting exploration of how romance and intimacy was not just the domain of the young.
After her death, most correspondence between the pair was destroyed, and Karim was sent back to India.