Comedy legend, Sir Ken Dodd died yesterday at the age of 90 after having a secret wedding with his lover of 40 years just two days earlier.
The humour merchant, famous through his decades-long career for his lengthy stand-up shows as well as his Diddy Men and tickling stick, wedded his long-term partner Anne Jones at the home in Liverpool’s Knotty Ash that he lived in his entire life.
Their wedding came after Sir Ken was discharged from Liverpool Heart and Chest hospital less than a fortnight ago following six weeks of treatment for a severe chest infection.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, his publicist Robert Holmes said: ‘It’s a wonderful love story. They had been together for 40 years and on Friday he suddenly asked her to marry him and she was delighted obviously.
‘She got hold of the local vicar and organised the registrar to come to the house and they got married. And two days later he’s passed away. ‘It’s not like it’s a surprise he’s been very ill for a long time. He’s a man who was born in Liverpool, never moved from the house he was born and his last concert was at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. It’s remarkable (how poignant the marriage was). I’m so delighted for Anne. He waited a lifetime to be knighted. Only last year I was at Buckingham Palace watching him be knighted.
