Who is Barry Humphries’s wife Elizabeth Spender?
DAME Edna Everage legend Barry Humphries has tragically died aged 89.
The veteran Australian entertainer, passed away on Saturday April 22, 2023, with his fourth wife Elizabeth Spender and family by his side.
But who is Elizabeth Spender and who were Barry Humphries’s other wives?
Brenda Wright
Humphries married Brenda Wright in 1955 when he was just 21.
But the pair divorced two years later.
Rosalind Tong
Rosalind Tong and Humphries married in 1959.
The pair had two daughters: Tessa and Emily.
Sadly the Australian comic divorced Rosalind in 1970 after 11-years of marriage.
Diane Millstead
In 1979, Humphries married Diane Millstead.
The pair had two sons, Oscar and Robert.
But the couple divorced ten years later in 1989.
Elizabeth Spender
Humphries is survived by his fourth wife Lizzie Spender.
He married Spender – daughter of poet Sir Stephen Spender – in 1990.
They lived in a terraced town house in West Hampstead, North London for over forty years.
Explaining the secret for his long marriage with Spender, Humphries said: “I’m a bit smarter now.
“The truth is I’m not a very easy person to be married to.”
Humphries passed away in Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital alongside his family, his management said.
Barry had been released from hospital just days before his death but was readmitted following hip surgery complications.