Editing Audrey Hepburn (section)

==Personal life and final years==
===Multilingualism===
Alongside her native English and Dutch, Hepburn also had some fluency in French (which she learned at school in Belgium), German, Italian, and Spanish.<ref>{{cite web|last=Almaden|first=Sarah Angela|url=https://beelinguapp.com/it/blog/celebrities-who-speak-multiple-languages|title=Audrey Hepburn and 9 Other Celebrities Who Speak Multiple Languages|work=[[Beelinguapp]]|date=30 April 2022|access-date=27 September 2023|archive-date=27 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927095040/https://beelinguapp.com/it/blog/celebrities-who-speak-multiple-languages|url-status=live}}</ref> Throughout her life, Hepburn lived in many countries, including spending her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands, and her adult years in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland,<ref name="minelle">{{cite web |url=https://news.sky.com/story/audrey-hepburn-a-hollywood-icon-scarred-by-the-loss-of-her-father-and-baby-girl-12144098 |title=Audrey Hepburn: A Hollywood icon scarred by the loss of her father and baby girl |work=Sky News |last=Minelle |first=Bethany |date=2 December 2020 |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> and travelled extensively during her later years of life as part of her humanitarian work with UNICEF.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicef.org/goodwill-ambassadors/audrey-hepburn |title=Audrey Hepburn |publisher=UNICEF |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref>

===Marriages, relationships, and children===
[[File:In_het_Rembrandtpleintheater_te_Amsterdam_kopen_Audrey_en_Mel_enkele_Unicef_lote,_Bestanddeelnr_919-5685.jpg|thumb|left|Hepburn with husband [[Mel Ferrer]] in 1966]]
In 1952, Hepburn became engaged to industrialist [[James Hanson, Baron Hanson|James Hanson]],{{sfn|Woodward|2012|p=131}} whom she had known since her early days in London. She called it "love at first sight", but after having her wedding dress fitted and the date set, she decided the marriage would not work because the demands of their careers would keep them apart most of the time.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hyams |first=Joe |url=http://www.audreyhepburnlibrary.com/50s/images/filmland1-54pg4.jpg |title=Why Audrey Hepburn Was Afraid Of Marriage |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605055457/http://www.audreyhepburnlibrary.com/50s/images/filmland1-54pg4.jpg |archive-date=5 June 2007 |work=Filmland |date=January 1954}}</ref> She issued a public statement about her decision, saying "When I get married, I want to be {{em|really}} married".{{sfn|Woodward|2012|p=132}} In the early 1950s, she also dated future ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' producer [[Michael Butler (producer)|Michael Butler]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Kogan |first=Rick |url=http://www.michaelbutler.com/orlok/michael/buttrib.html |title=The Aging of Aquarius |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102136/http://www.michaelbutler.com/orlok/michael/buttrib.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=30 June 1996 |via=michaelbutler.com |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Audrey Hepburn and Robert Wolders.png|thumb|upright|Hepburn and her partner [[Robert Wolders]] at the [[White House]] in 1981|alt=Hepburn with her new partner after end of her second marriage.]]

At a cocktail party hosted by mutual friend [[Gregory Peck]], Hepburn met American actor [[Mel Ferrer]], and suggested that they star together in a play.<ref name=soundstage />{{sfn|Walker|1997}} The meeting led them to collaborate in ''Ondine'', during which they began a relationship. Eight months later, on 25 September 1954, they were married in [[Bürgenstock]], Switzerland,<ref name="bigmoment54pg1.jpg">{{cite web |url=http://www.audreyhepburnlibrary.com/50s/images/bigmoment54pg1.jpg |title=Audrey Hepburn puts an end to "will she" or "won't she" rumors by marrying Mel Ferrer! |work=audreyhepburnlibrary.com [expired domain] |date=1954 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206193241/http://www.audreyhepburnlibrary.com/50s/images/bigmoment54pg1.jpg |archive-date=6 December 2010}}</ref> while preparing to star together in the film ''[[War and Peace (1956 film)|War and Peace]]'' (1956). 

She and Ferrer had a son, [[Sean Hepburn Ferrer]], born on 17 June 1960.<ref name="Harper's Bazaar Love Stories">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a10002427/audrey-hepburn-love-life-timeline/ |title=A Timeline of Audrey Hepburn's Hollywood Love Stories |first=Morgan |last=Evans |date=16 June 2017 |magazine=Harper's Bazaar |access-date=23 February 2023 |archive-date=23 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223194602/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a10002427/audrey-hepburn-love-life-timeline/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Prior to Sean's birth, Hepburn had two other pregnancies that ended in miscarriages, the second one at six months.<ref name="minelle" /><ref name="Harper's Bazaar Love Stories" /><ref>{{Cite book |title=Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit |last=Hepburn Ferrer |first=Sean |date=2003 |publisher=Atria Books |isbn=0671024787 |edition=1st Atria books hardcover |location=New York |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/audreyhepburnele00ferr}}</ref> Ferrer was rumoured to be too controlling, and had been referred to by others as being her "[[Svengali]]" – an idea that Hepburn laughed off. William Holden was quoted as saying, "I think Audrey allows Mel to think he influences her." After a 14-year marriage, the couple divorced in 1968.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mel Ferrer obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2076351/Mel-Ferrer.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=4 June 2008 |access-date=5 April 2018 |archive-date=23 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123232443/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2076351/Mel-Ferrer.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1960, Hepburn settled in Switzerland, having decided to reduce her film work and live in the country where her first son Sean was born. Looking for a house, she focused on the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the [[Romandy|''Romandie'']], to avoid Sean learning German in school – an echo of her traumatic wartime childhood. She bought the 21-room country estate "La Paisible" ("The Peaceful One") in the country village of [[Tolochenaz]], [[Vaud]]. The remote estate, surrounded by high walls, suited her desire for privacy, and Hepburn was fond of cooking with the produce from its extensive vegetable gardens.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kardos |first=Anna |date=29 March 2025 |title=Das Geheimnis von Audrey Hepburns Rückzugsort in der Schweiz |url=https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/am-liebsten-fruehstueckte-audrey-hepburn-in-der-schweiz-ld.1876821 |access-date=29 March 2025 |work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]] |language=de-CH |issn=0376-6829}}</ref>

Hepburn met her second husband, Italian psychiatrist [[Andrea Dotti (psychiatrist)|Andrea Dotti]], on a [[Mediterranean]] cruise with friends in June 1968. She believed she would have more children and possibly stop working.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hepburn is engaged to Italian psychiatrist |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=6 January 1969 |location=[[Toronto]] |page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://people.com/archive/the-private-audrey/ |title=The Private Audrey |date=1 January 1993 |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=25 September 2017 |language=en-US |archive-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041208/http://people.com/archive/the-private-audrey/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They married on 18 January 1969, and their son Luca Andrea Dotti was born on 8 February 1970.<ref name="Harper's Bazaar Love Stories" /> While pregnant with Luca in 1969, Hepburn was more careful, resting for months before delivering the baby via [[caesarean section]]. Hepburn suffered a miscarriage in 1974.<ref name="Harper's Bazaar Love Stories" />

Dotti and Hepburn were both unfaithful, he with younger women and she with actor [[Ben Gazzara]] during the filming of [[Bloodline (1979 film)|''Bloodline'']] (1979).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/movies/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html |work=The New York Times |first=Neil |last=Genzlinger |title=Ben Gazzara, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 81 |date=3 February 2012 |access-date=5 February 2017 |archive-date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107201554/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/movies/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The marriage lasted 12 years and was dissolved in 1982.<ref name="Harper's Bazaar Love Stories" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Audrey Hepburn obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5894883/Audrey-Hepburn.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121030948/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5894883/Audrey-Hepburn.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 January 2010 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=22 January 1993}}</ref>

From 1980 until her death in 1993, Hepburn was in a relationship with Dutch actor [[Robert Wolders]], the widower of actress [[Merle Oberon]].<ref name="nytimesobit" /> She had met Wolders through a friend during the later years of her second marriage. In 1989, she called the nine years she had spent with him the happiest years of her life, and stated that she considered them married, just not officially.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heatley |first1=Michael |title=Audrey Hepburn: In words and pictures |date=2017 |publisher=Book Sales |isbn=978-0-7858-3534-9 |page=166}}</ref>

===Illness and death===
[[File:Grave of Audrey Hepburn, Tolochenaz, Switzerland - 20080711.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Hepburn's grave in [[Tolochenaz]], Switzerland|alt=Hepburn memorial at her burial site in Europe.]]

Upon returning to Switzerland from Somalia in late September 1992, Hepburn developed [[abdominal pain]]. While initial medical tests in Switzerland had inconclusive results, a [[laparoscopy]] performed at the [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in Los Angeles in early November revealed a rare form of abdominal cancer belonging to a group of cancers known as [[pseudomyxoma peritonei]].{{sfn|Paris|1996|p=361}} Having grown slowly over several years, the cancer had [[metastasis]]ed as a thin coating over her [[small intestine]]. After surgery, Hepburn began [[chemotherapy]].<ref name=cr>{{cite web |url=http://www.crmagazine.org/archive/Fall2009/Pages/AudreyHepburnAppendixCancer.aspx |title=Selim Jocelyn, ""The Fairest of All", ''CR Magazine'', Fall 2009 |publisher=Crmagazine.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419051634/http://www.crmagazine.org/archive/Fall2009/Pages/AudreyHepburnAppendixCancer.aspx |archive-date=19 April 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Hepburn and her family returned home to Switzerland to celebrate her last Christmas. As she was still recovering from surgery, she was unable to fly on commercial aircraft. Her long-time friend, fashion designer [[Hubert de Givenchy]], arranged for socialite [[Rachel Lambert Mellon|Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon]] to send her private [[Gulfstream Aerospace|Gulfstream]] jet, filled with flowers, to take Hepburn from Los Angeles to [[Geneva]]. She spent her last days in [[hospice care]] at her home in [[Tolochenaz]], [[Vaud]], and was occasionally well enough to take walks in her garden, but gradually became more confined to bedrest.{{sfn|Harris|1994|p=289}}

On the evening of 20 January 1993, Hepburn died in her sleep at her home. She was 63. After her death, [[Gregory Peck]] recorded a tribute to Hepburn in which he recited the poem "[[Unending love (poem)|Unending Love]]" by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Gregory Peck about Audrey Hepburn |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL_yVhwxCSY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/DL_yVhwxCSY |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live |website=YouTube| date=20 January 2008 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Funeral services were held at the village church of Tolochenaz on 24 January 1993. Maurice Eindiguer, the same pastor who wed Hepburn and Mel Ferrer and baptised her son Sean in 1960, presided over her funeral, while [[Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan]] of UNICEF delivered a eulogy. Many family members and friends attended the funeral, including her sons, partner Robert Wolders, half-brother Ian Quarles van Ufford, ex-husbands Andrea Dotti and Mel Ferrer, Hubert de Givenchy, executives of UNICEF, and fellow actors [[Alain Delon]] and [[Roger Moore]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/25/arts/hepburn-s-role-as-ambassador-is-paid-tribute.html |work=The New York Times |first=David |last=Binder |title=Hepburn's Role As Ambassador Is Paid Tribute |date=25 January 1993 |access-date=5 February 2017 |archive-date=19 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119011921/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/25/arts/hepburn-s-role-as-ambassador-is-paid-tribute.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Flower arrangements were sent to the funeral by Gregory Peck, [[Elizabeth Taylor]], and the [[Dutch royal family]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20063483,00.html |work=People |title=A Gentle Goodbye –Surrounded by the Men She Loved, the Star Was Laid to Rest on a Swiss Hilltop |date=1 January 1993 |access-date=21 February 2012 |archive-date=5 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205231457/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20063483,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Later on the same day, Hepburn was interred at the Tolochenaz Cemetery.<ref>News Service, N.Y. Times. (25 January 1993). "Hepburn buried in Switzerland". ''[[Record-Journal]]''. p. 10.</ref>