Richard Beckinsale on Feb. 19, 1978; Kate Beckinsale in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 3, 2023.Photo:Don Smith/Radio Times/Getty; Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty
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Kate Beckinsaleis thinking of her late father.
On Tuesday, the actress shared acarousel of photosfeaturing her dad,Richard Beckinsale, along with her mother,Judy Loe, and a younger version of herself as she marked the 45th anniversary of Richard’s death. He was just 31 when he died in 1979 of a massive heart attack.
“The day you died comes round so suddenly even when I’m expecting it,” Kate, 50, began her post. “This is my first year without any father figure at all for a long long time. How I miss you.”
Kate added of Richard, “I’m so grateful to have had your love. I feel it, like an echo. X.”
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From L: Judy Loe, Kate Beckinsale and Richard Beckinsale in March 1977.Alamy
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The anniversary of Richard’s death comes just two months afterKate’s stepfather died suddenlyfollowing “a brief period of illness.”
TheUnderworldstar followed the statementwith another postas she admitted she had “no words yet” for the loss: “I fought for you with everything I had. Oh Roy I am so sorry I lost.”
When the actress’s father Richard died, she was just 5 years old. In 2019, on the40th anniversary of his death, she wrote on Instagram, “40 years is a lot of missing. Thank you so much to everyone who has been kind. Lots of love xx.”
In 2022, Kate opened up about the grief she feels as she shared somesweet family photoswith Richard and a photo of the front page ofThe Mirrornewspaper following the news of his death.
“I don’t rememberwhat not missing him feels like. It is part of me, like my blood. Always aware of how life can shatter. May all the daddies, everywhere, come home safe,” she wrote in the caption. “How much love you brought x.”
“I cannot stress to you enough how famous he was,” Kate said of her dad onThe Howard Stern Showin 2021. “He was in two or three of the most iconic comedies of the period and everybody loved him.”
She added of the “really, really intense” days following Richard’s death, “I remember confusing whenJohn Lennondied and when my dad died because people were standing in the street with the evening paper sobbing on both occasions, and I can’t remember which version of that is which because they were so similar.”
source: people.com
