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Reverend Richard Coles has reflected on his grief as he marks the six-month anniversary of the death of his partner. Taking to Twitter, the 58 year-old shared a candid post as he considered the time he has spent without David by his side. 'Six months since David died,' he told fans. 'Someone, kindly, asked me if I'm getting over it. No. It's not that sort of thing. It's more like losing a limb. You adapt, rather than recover. And limp.'

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Richard Coles has marked the six-month anniversary of the death of partner David

Richard and David entered into a civil partnership in 2005 and remained together until his passing last year. David was just 42 at the time. Announcing the news of his death on Twitter, devastated Richard shared: 'I'm very sorry to say that @RevDavidColes has died. He had been ill for a while. Thanks to the brilliant teams who looked after him at @KettGeneral. Funeral details to follow. 'The Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.'

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Earlier this year, Richard spoke about how he has dealt with his grief in an interview with the Guardian. He explained: 'After David died, there was a woman at the hospital who had been widowed, too. She said, 'You're going to be mad, for a while. People will never be as nice to you again as they are now, so milk it for all you can.'

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David was just 42 at the time of his death

He added: 'I've had to subtract David from the future and that has taken all the future with it. It’s a bit blank. I think: ‘What the [expletive] am I going to do? Play the accordion and go to bed at ten past six, I guess.’ Of course, it’s not the end of my life. But it feels like it’s over sometimes.'

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In David's Twitter bio, he had described himself as 'a dilettante potter, designer, gardener & narrow boat enthusiast'. He also enjoyed cooking, and often opened up about meals he had cooked up in the kitchen. In his pinned tweet, he wrote: 'Had to do the big shop today. @RevRichardColes is out tonight so I thought a simple supper. Fresh oysters with a gin and tonic and I bought myself some flowers too. It’s important to reward yourself once in a while, don’t you think?!'

Warm and wise in equal measure, Richard Coles is best known for his TV and radio celebrity as well as his former pop career, but it’s as vicar of St Mary The Virgin in the Northamptonshire parish of Finedon where his true life really exists. This existence was devastated in late 2019 by the death of his beloved life partner, David. Following his hugely popular memoirs Fathomless Riches and Bringing In The Sheaves, Coles’ new book The Madness Of Grief is a poignant account of losing David and the spiralling trauma of bereavement, but heartened with Coles’ black humour and compassion. Although not a self-help book, the homilies, experience and catharsis within creates invaluable solace. It will resonate for the myriad struggling with grief wrought by the pandemic.

A precocious musician, Coles began learning to play piano at the age of just four and was a choirboy at the age of eight. After turning 16, he came out to his mum by playing her Tom Robinson’s ‘Glad To Gay’ multiple times. Just a year later, he was diagnosed with clinical depression after a suicide attempt which prompted a spell in a psychiatric hospital. Released and then buoyed by his personal freedom from small town England, the eventual lure of London saw Richard immerse himself in the excitement of the capital’s thriving early 80s gay scene.

After becoming friends with Jimmy Somerville and joining Bronski Beat on sax after the band’s initial success, they both quit in 1985 to form The Communards. Their self-titled debut album contained the spectacularly successful hi-NRG version of disco classic ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way', a cover that’s now synonymous with the era’s gloriously loud and proud gay liberation movement. The songs – ‘Victims’ and 'For A Friend’ particularly – of the second equally vibrant but more thoughtful album Red chronicled the grim onset of AIDS. Following the band’s split in 1988, Richard studied for a BA in theology. Selected for Church of England priesthood training, he was ultimately ordained in 2005.

As his impressively eclectic and diverse song choices suggest, Coles’ love of music has been a reliable constant throughout his life. “The one thing through the past year that hasn’t paled for me is music,” he says, reflecting on his grief following David’s death. “I couldn’t read for a long time after he died. I couldn’t even get into box sets particularly, but the one thing that kept delivering for me was music.”

The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss by The Reverend Richard Coles is out now, published by W&N. To begin reading his selections, please click the pic below.