Crown star Charles Dance and girlfriend Alessandra Masi are tanning on a nudist beach during a sunny getaway to the Spanish island of Formentera.
The actor, 77, who played older Louis Mountbatten in the Netflix series, showed off his toned physique as he strolled along the sand before taking a cool dip in the ocean.
Italian Alessandra, 55, also showed off her youthful figure, tying her curly locks into a bun before joining the Game Of Thrones star in the water on Saturday.
The couple, who met on the set of his 2020 film The Book of Vision, later retreated to their towels and took shelter from the scorching sun under an umbrella.
Charles and Alessandra then wore casual ensembles as they enjoyed some retail therapy at the island’s nearby designer stores.
The Crown’s Charles Dance, 77, left little to the imagination as he and girlfriend Alessandra Masi, 55, topped up their tan on a nudist beach on Saturday during their getaway to the Spanish island of Formentera
The actor played older Louis Mountbatten in the third and fourth series of the Netflix drama
The couple wore shorts and sandals as they walked together, hand in hand with the chivalrous Charles carrying their groceries.
When they met, Alessandra was working as a production manager on the surreal historical film that was shot on locations in Italy and Belgium.
The film depicts Charles as two doctors: one in modern London and the other in 18th-century Prussia.
When asked what his most important memory of the film was, he said: “Honestly, it’s meeting Alessandra.” The couple has been together for about four years now.
Charles was married to Joanna Haythorn from 1970 to 2004 and they have two adult children.
He subsequently dated actress Sophia Myles, then in her 20s, who starred in films such as Thunderbirds, but they split in 2005.
Charles was also linked to French-born ex-Gucci model Shambhala Marthe, and subsequently dated artist Eleanor Boorman for four years.
Despite welcoming daughter Rose together in 2012 and even getting engaged, the couple split months later.
Charles showed off his toned physique as he strolled along the sands of the nudist beach before taking a cool dip in the ocean
Italian Alessandra also showed off her youthful figure, tying her curly locks into a bun before joining the Game Of Thrones star in the water
Charles brushed his wet hair back after enjoying his swim
The couple who met on the set of his 2020 film, The Book of Vision, took shelter from the scorching sun under an umbrella
The lovebirds frolicked together in the ocean
Charles depicted in The Crown
It comes after Charles revealed his 34-year marriage ended when he told his wife he was ‘succumbing to some temptations’.
The star said he had ‘huge regrets’ that his relationship with sculptor Joanne ended when they divorced in 2004 after he admitted cheating on her.
The couple – who had two children together, son Oliver, 50, and Rebecca, 44 – married in 1970.
The charismatic actor blamed his behavior for becoming an unlikely sex symbol after starring in TV drama The Jewel in the Crown in 1984, when he admitted he had succumbed to his libido.
But he said he is grateful his ex-wife was able to forgive him 18 months after he destroyed their marriage of 30 years and they are now “best friends.”
Later, Charles and Alessandra donned casual ensembles while enjoying retail therapy at the island’s nearby designer stores
The couple wore shorts and sandals as they walked together, hand in hand with the chivalrous Charles carrying their groceries
When they met, Alessandra was working as a production manager on the surreal historical film which was shot on locations in Italy and Belgium
The film depicts Charles as two doctors: one in modern London and the other in 18th-century Prussia
When asked what his most important memory of the film was, he said: “Honestly, it’s meeting Alessandra.” The couple has been together for about four years now.
Speaking to Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, he said: ‘It was a great marriage for the most part, but unfortunately I succumbed to some temptations along the way and the marriage actually ended because of my behavior.’
The couple were living in Somerset and spending their days in different parts of the ‘huge’ house when he broke the news to her about his cheating past.
“At the end of the day I had to be honest,” he said. ‘Because we lived in Somerset, in this huge place, and Jo had her study on one side and I had mine on the other, and we were a bit like George and Martha (in the play) Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? really after a while.
“Eventually I came back and thought, ‘Really, we have to do that.’ [a] very serious conversation’. And I had to be honest and it came as a shock to Jo, bless her.”
He told the host that he had never considered himself that attractive, but his eyes started wandering when he starred as Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown and people started saying he was ‘the thinking woman’s crumpet’.
It comes after Charles revealed his 34-year marriage failed when he told his wife he was ‘succumbing to some temptations’ (pictured together in 2000).
He blamed his behavior on becoming an unlikely sex symbol after starring in the 1984 TV drama The Jewel in the Crown (pictured)
“I always felt very grateful when girls acted like they were attracted to me,” he said. “But there’s no justification for it, you know.
‘In our industry, Gyles, temptations often arise and you have to be nicely balanced and not have a particularly powerful libido not to succumb to them.
‘So the marriage came to an end – huge regret. But after about eighteen months, Jo and I luckily became the best of friends, and we still are, thank goodness.
‘She had a flat not too far from where I live and we saw each other quite often, so it all worked out in the end.’
He confessed that it took him a long time to learn the law of cause and effect and that if he could turn back time, he would have done things differently in his marriage.
