Editing Dirk Bogarde (section)

==Personal life==

After his acting career had given him some success, Bogarde moved from London and rented a cottage on the Bendrose Estate in [[Little Chalfont]], [[Buckinghamshire]], the family home of his business manager and partner, [[Anthony Forwood|Anthony "Tote" Forwood]].<ref name = "Beel House">{{cite web|url=https://amershammuseum.org/history/little-chalfont/beel-house-and-dirk-bogarde/|title=Amersham's matinee idol and the intriguing history of Beel House|publisher=Amersham Museum|author=Alison Bailey|date=1 November 2021|accessdate=7 May 2024}}</ref> Bogarde subsequently lived in the area for some 40 years. After an unsuccessful attempt to gain planning permission to convert the estate into a housing development, Bogarde bought the adjoining [[Beel House]] and Park from William Lowndes for £4,000. After tearing down the servants' wing, Bogarde and Forwood had the main house redeveloped and refurbished "to bring more light" into the original 1700s core. They lived there until 1960, after the development of [[Dr Challoner's High School]] just 200 yards from Beel House. The couple subsequently moved to Drummer's Yard near [[Beaconsfield]]. Beel House was later owned by [[Ozzy Osbourne|Ozzy]] and [[Sharon Osbourne]], and [[Robert Kilroy Silk]] who sold it for £6.5M in the mid-2010's.<ref name = "Beel House"/>

Bogarde and Forwood later moved to [[Provence]], France, then Italy, before returning to France.  They moved back to London shortly before Forwood's death in 1988.<ref>Coldstream, John. Introduction to ''Ever Dirk, The Bogarde Letters.'' Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008, p3.</ref>

The critical and commercial failure of ''[[Song Without End]]'' affected his Hollywood leading man hopes. He struggled with the trauma of his active service, compounded by rapid fame, recounting, "First there was the war, and then the peace to cope with, and then suddenly I was a [[film star]]. It happened all too soon."<ref name="Military"/>