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    THE MISCHIEF & THE MAJESTY

    Jun 19, 2019 6 minutes

    At 84 years old, Judi Dench is one of the busiest actresses in Hollywood. But when she’s not playing a spy, or Shakespeare’s wife, or an elderly cat, or a gender-bending fairy police commander – yes, these are all actual roles for Judi in 2019 – you’ll find her in amongst her greatest passion: trees. “My life now is just trees. Trees and ... um ... and champagne,” she says, with a characteristically naughty wink.

    For 30 years, Judi has been tending an area of woodland at the back of her two-hectare property in Surrey. When she spoke with The Weekly back in 2017, she confessed that, in the summer, she was fond of taking off her clothes and standing naked in the garden to “enjoy the blissful air”.

    It was this unbridled love of nature that brought her together – nine years after the death of her husband Michael Williams in 2001 – with David Mills, a one-time dairy farmer turned conservationist, to

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