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===Dorothy Squires=== In 1952 Moore met the Welsh singer [[Dorothy Squires]], who was 12 years his senior, and Van Steyn and Moore divorced the following year.<ref name=SquiresObit>"Obituary: Dorothy Squires", ''[[The Times]]'', London, 15 April 1998, pg. 21</ref> Squires and Moore were married in New York.<ref name=SquiresObit/> They lived in [[Bexley]], [[Kent]], after their wedding.<ref name=Kent5031173>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/sir-roger-moore-former-james-bond-actor-bexley-and-tunbridge-wells-resident-dies-aged-89-from-cancer-1-5031176|title=Sir Roger Moore, former James Bond actor, Bexley and Tunbridge Wells resident, dies aged 89 from cancer|first=Luke|last=May|publisher=Archant|work=Kentnews.co.uk|access-date=23 May 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523153358/http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/sir-roger-moore-former-james-bond-actor-bexley-and-tunbridge-wells-resident-dies-aged-89-from-cancer-1-5031176|archive-date=23 May 2017}}</ref> They moved to the United States in 1954 to develop their careers, but tension developed in their marriage due to their age difference and Moore's infatuation with starlet [[Dorothy Provine]], and they moved back to the United Kingdom in 1961, where they resided in [[Sutton Coldfield]], near [[Birmingham]].<ref name=SquiresObit/> Squires suffered a series of miscarriages during their marriage, and Moore later said the outcome of their marriage might have been different if they had been able to have children.<ref name=SquiresObit/> During their tempestuous relationship Squires smashed a guitar over his head, and after learning of his affair with the Italian actress [[Luisa Mattioli]], who later became Moore's third wife, Moore said, "She threw a brick through my window. She reached through the glass and grabbed my shirt and she cut her arms doing it...The police came and they said, 'Madam, you're bleeding' and she said, 'It's my heart that's bleeding'."<ref name=TelegSep12/> Squires intercepted letters from Mattioli to Moore and planned to include them in her autobiography, but the couple won injunctions against the publication in 1977, which led Squires to unsuccessfully sue them for loss of earnings.<ref name=SquiresObit/> The numerous legal cases launched by Squires led her to be declared a [[vexatious litigant]] in 1987.<ref>[https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vexatious-litigants#history Retrieved May 2017]</ref> Moore paid Squires's hospital bills after her cancer treatment in 1996; she died in 1998.<ref name=SquiresOperation>"Moore pays for Squires operation." ''The Times'', London, 31 May 1996, pg. 6</ref><ref name=TelegOct00/>
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