Dame Judi Dench sad she had only one child

Dame Judi Dench says she will always regret not having more children, since her attempts to adopt were turned down.

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Dench became a first-time mother to daughter Finty at the age of 37, and she and husband Michael Williams longed for another baby.

Dench was unable to get pregnant again, and the couple subsequently looked into adoption, but officials denied their request. Michael died of lung cancer in 2001 at age 65.

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She tells Britain's Yours magazine, "I wish we'd had lots more children. That's the only regret I have. But I was older and it didn't happen. We tried to adopt a child, and they didn't like it because we were over 40, and Michael was a Catholic and I was a Quaker. It obviously wasn't to be."

Dench also opens up about her early days as a mother in the interview, revealing, "I'd had a daughter, and having a family, I wanted to be at home. Michael wouldn't let me stop (working), though. So in the beginning, I tried to arrange things so I was with her during the day and going to the theater in the evening when she was in bed. Later on, when she went to school, I could do things like television during the day to be with her in the evening."

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