By Ellie Buchdahl PUBLISHED: 09:05 EST, 7 September 2013 | UPDATED: 13:18 EST, 7 September 2013 His films taught us that - provided you can put up with a car chase, a swim in an eel-infested pond or a mad dash along London's Southbank - love, actually, will always find a way. But Richard Curtis has revealed that he felt compelled to write his happily-ever-after romantic comedies because of a personal heartbreak - and named the woman at who caused it. The director, whose works include Love Actually, Notting Hill and Four Weddings And A Funeral, said his student girlfriend Carolyn Colquhoun 'broke my heart spectacularly, as a result of which I wrote about unbroken hearts for ten years'.
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British director of Notting Hill and Four Weddings And A Funeral names Carolyn Colquhoun, now Carolyn Morton-Hooper, as his muse
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Curtis now lives with partner, broadcaster Emma Freud, and their four children
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Mrs Morton-Hooper says she has not seen Curtis for years but would 'quite like a word with him'
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Couple dated for 12 months in 1970s
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Miss Colquhoun also dated Rowan Atkinson at Oxford University
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