Olivia Williams it certainly needs no introduction. The star appeared in many famous productions. Loyal fans certainly remember her famous debut in “Van der Valk”. She became known to a wider audience in the Netflix hit “The Crown”. Williams played the elderly Queen Camilla. Some may associate it with something else, more specifically with… Radosław Sikorski. The politician and the actress dated for some time in the 1980s.
Radosław Sikorski turned Olivia Williams' head. “I've never met a man like that”
They met in the second half of the 1980s. Sikorski was studying at Oxford at the time. He met Williams at one of the parties there. From word to word it quickly turned out that they had a lot in common. At one point, the actress even wanted to move to Poland. “Then I thought: I want nothing more than to be with you everywhere, wherever you sail, wherever you go (…) Until that moment, I had never met such a man who, when greeting a woman, clicked his heels and bowed gallantly head,” she admitted in an interview for “Viva!” in 2013. However, the relationship did not stand the test of time. What was the reason for the breakup?
Radosław Sikorski and Olivia Williams had different perspectives. “He wanted to save Poland”
“That extraordinary summer of 1989 came. I was 21 years old and had just started intensive classes at an acting school. Radka Port was here. He had to return to Poland,” she explained to “Vivie!”. In the same interview, the actress admitted that Sikorski “wanted to save Poland.” She, however, preferred to focus on her international acting career. “Each of us went our own way,” she said. Sikorski and Williams remain friends. In 2013, the actress even appeared at his 50th birthday party. However, each of them has its own life. The politician married Anne Applebaumwith whom he has two children. Williams married playwright Rhashan Stone. The couple also had two children. SEE ALSO: Schreiber to Sikorski: You will feel ashamed. The Minister of Foreign Affairs called her an “egomaniac”