Sean connery and micheline roquebrune photos

Sir Sean Connery clasps his doting wife's hand in one of the last pictures of the couple — taken months before he died after suffering dementia. It was taken on the pair's 45th wedding anniversary on the 6 May this year in the Bahamas, where Sean — who died aged 90 — had lived for decades. The picture has emerged after Sean's wife Micheline Roquebrune paid tribute to the star as her 'gorgeous model of a man'.

Devoted: Sir Sean Connery clasps his doting wife's hand in one of the last pictures of the couple — taken months before he died after suffering dementia. Revealing how Sean's final months were blighted by dementia, Micheline, who was married to the Oscar -winning star for 45 years, said: 'It was no life for him. He was not able to express himself latterly.

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I was with him all the time and he just slipped away. It was what he wanted. He got his final wish to slip away without any fuss. The year-old Moroccan-French painter, who met the Scot in at a golf tournament and became his second wife, added: 'He was gorgeous and we had a wonderful life together.

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Family: He was also pictured at his 89th birthday celebrations in the Bahamas with son Jason, 57, and his Irish musician partner Fiona Ufton, It is going to be very hard without him, I know that. But it could not last for ever and he went peacefully. Sean's marriage to Micheline survived the actor's well-documented affair with s singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul.

It's believed the couple celebrated their anniversary at Sean's home in where died on New Providence Island. In his final few years, Sean rarely left the gated Lyford Cay community where he spent his retirement after packing in acting in June — becoming a virtual recluse and giving his agent strict instructions to reject all movie offers.

He was also pictured at his 89th birthday celebrations in the Bahamas with son Jason, 57, and his Irish musician partner Fiona Ufton,