Heartbreak for Michael Palin as his wife dies following health battle

said his wife of 57 years passed away in the early hours of Tuesday in a heart-breaking post on his website.Credit: Michael Palin, told he met Helen while on holiday in Suffolk aged just 16 before they married in their twenties.

Paying tribute to "the bedrock of my life", he added: "My dearest wife Helen died peacefully in the early hours of Tuesday morning. "She had been suffering with chronic pain for several years, which was compounded a few years ago by a diagnosis of kidney failure. "We first met on a summer holiday on the Suffolk coast when we were both sixteen and we married in our early twenties."Her death is an indescribable loss for myself, our three children and four grandchildren.

"Helen was the bedrock of my life. Her quietly wise judgment informed all my decisions and her humour and practical good sense was was at the heart of our life together.

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