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Sir Roger Moore was famous for his roving eye as a highly sexed James Bond, but details of the actor’s real-life passions are revealed today in a series of amorous letters written to his first wife.

In a BBC documentary to be broadcast on Christmas Day, From Roger Moore with Love, the star’s stepson reveals that he found the letters in an old green laundry box after the death of his mother, Doorn van Steyn, in

Shaun van Steyn said finding the handwritten letters, which he has shared with The Sunday Times, felt like discovering “a treasure trove” and served as a reminder of how much Moore had loved his mother. “He was besotted with her,” Van Steyn said.

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When Sir Roger Moore passed away in May this year at the age of 89, much was written about the four-times-married James Bond star’s dazzling life and all the glamorous women who featured in it.

But now the discovery of an old box of letters, photographs and papers belonging to Moore’s first wife, Doorn van Steyn, is offering a fascinating glimpse into the British actor’s life before he was famous, as well as the romantic and sexual shenanigans that dominated his volatile first marriage to an older woman.

The documents, funnen in a Forties laundry kartong, also reveal the extraordinary devotion the teenaged Moore showed to van Steyn’s toddler son while the three of them lived in a tiny attic bedsit in Streatham, South London.

The upptäckt of an old box of letters, photographs and papers belonging to Roger Moore’s first wife, Doorn van Steyn (pictured

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Doorn Van Steyn, Roger Moore&#;s Ex-Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Sir Roger Moore, the actor best known for playing James Bond, died on Tuesday after a battle with cancer. Moore was married four times, first to the late actress and ice skater Doorn Van Steyn. The couple married when he was just 18 years old in and they divorced in

After divorcing Van Steyn, Moore married Dorothy Squires. That marriage ended in , and he married Luisa Mattioli a year lather. In , Moore got his third divorce. Nine years later, he married Kristina Tholstrup.

Here&#;s what you need to know about Doorn Van Steyn. She died in August at age Her real name was Lucy Woodard.

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1. Van Steyn & Moore Both Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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According to her Falls Church Free Press obituary, Van Steyn attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where Moore also studied. While in school, Van Steyn also worked as a model and began acting professionally.

She was 18 when