Dominic West's wife has reflected on the first few days of their relationship.
Dominic West and Catherine FitzGerald
Catherine FitzGerald, who is married to the 51-year-old actor, looked back on her romance with the actor - who became the centre of a media storm when he was photographed on a trip to Italy with Lily James - when they met at Trinity College in Dublin, describing their romance as a "love affair".
Speaking about their short romance as college students, she said: "We had a wonderful love affair. We would look over Dublin, reading poetry to one another with the mountains in the distance. We had all the time in the world to explore the pubs and back streets and walk the canal.
"But at the end of the summer, I left him, and he has not let me forget it! But I couldn't have settled down with him right then forever. That would not have been a good idea for either of us."
The couple didn't rekindle their romance until they were in their 30s.
She told the Irish Independent newspaper: "He was having a year out and came back to London to be with his daughter, and a mutual friend brought him to meet me.
"We were both, then, at the right time in our lives. And it was lovely to have that shared history, from earlier days. There's something about having lived a full life before settling down – I felt I could throw myself into family life and having babies with gusto. And I really went for it, having four in seven years!"
Dominic has daughter Martha, 23, with his ex, and Dora,15, Senan, 13, and Francis, 12, with Catherine.
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