Hugh Bonneville s (left) wife Lulu (right) broke down in tears as she told friends that he had abruptly ended their 25-year-long marriage in July weeks before he was seen giggling at a wedding.
A source told the Sun Hugh, who lived with Lulu at their home in West Sussex and had previously described her as his bedrock , had been away from home filming a lot this year .
At the marriage of his Downton Abbey co-star Michelle Dockery last weekend, Hugh Bonneville looked trimmer, while the wedding ring he had worn for 25 years was nowhere to be seen.