has revealed that he spends a lot of his time in a wheelchair after the return of a debilitating medical condition.
Lord Julian, 75, is best known as the creator of and the series
The Conservative peer has won numerous awards for his contributions to television and the stage, and has been working in the entertainment industry since the 1970s.
In a new interview, Lord Julian revealed that he spends a lot of time in a wheelchair after the return of a medical condition.
‘It’s true that I do spend too much time in a wheelchair these days,’ he revealed in a new interview.
‘About 40 years ago, I was diagnosed with spinal stenosis, probably resulting from an early slipped disc. I had an operation and, after quite a long convalescence, I was well again, dancing, riding and the rest,’ he told .
‘Unluckily, a couple of years ago, I was told the condition had returned and, after another operation, I was obliged to recognise that my powers of recovery at 75 were not quite what they had been at 35. Which, I suppose, is no great surprise.
He then added that he didn’t feel ‘unlucky’ as there are many people who are in far worse situations.
‘I am not entirely immobile, but I do have to remain sitting for most of the time. I don’t consider myself unlucky in this. Other people have far worse to put up with.’
Lord Julian is married to Emma Kitchener who is a former lady-in-waiting to .
The pair married in 1990 and share one child named Peregrine Charles Morant Kitchener-Fellowes who was born in 1991.
Despite any of his health concerns Lord Julian has remained busy and has a film coming out this year – the third Downton Abbey movie.
Additionally, only last week the screenwriter announced he will be adapting Donna Leon’s acclaimed Detective Brunetti series into a TV series.
Lord Julian’s series The Gilded Age is also set to return for a third season with filming already underway.
