“She was teaching an accent session with a bunch of actors, and I thought she had the most wonderful voice and huge, sort of monkey eyes. She seemed fairly frenetic. I thought that she was really cute and all that. It was December 1982.”
The following January, she asked him to dinner in exchange for putting a script on tape for an RSC production she was voice coaching on.
Ahead of her funeral, Richard posted another tribute on Twitter two days ago, he typed” “35 years ago we pledged, ‘In Sickness and in Health’.
“That time has come for us today, @OliviaGranted & I and our friends gather for the funeral of my beloved wife, Joan.
“The depth of our sorrow mirrored by the magnitude of our love.” (sic)
source: express.co.uk