Robert Wagner, 96, Celebrates Wife Jill’s 86th Birthday: ‘So Blessed to Love You’
Robert Wagner, 96, Celebrates Wife Jill’s 86th Birthday: ‘So Blessed to Love You’
Virginia ChamleeWed, August 19, 2026 at 8:46 PM UTC
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Robert Wagner shared a heartfelt Instagram post celebrating Jill St. John’s 86th birthday with a throwback photo
The couple reconnected in 1981 after Natalie Wood’s death and married in 1990
Jill St. John is known for playing Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl in the James Bond franchise
Robert Wagner is celebrating wife Jill St. John’s 86th birthday.
On Wednesday, Aug. 19, the Hart to Hart star, 96, shared a throwback photo of himself and his longtime wife on Instagram to commemorate her special day. In the photo, the two could be seen standing in front of a lake, the actor with his arm around his wife.
“Wishing the happiest of birthdays to my beautiful wife Jill. I’m so blessed to love you and to do life with you. Happy Birthday, beautiful 💕” the actor wrote in his caption.
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Robert Wagner and Jill St. JohnCredit: Nick Elgar/Getty
Wagner and St. John tied the knot in 1990, nine years after the two reconnected following the death of the actor’s wife, Natalie Wood.
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St. John is best known for playing Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl in the James Bond franchise.
Wagner and St. John initially met in the 1950s, when they were both contract players at Fox, but their decades-long romance was fueled in November 1981 when the actress sent Wagner flowers and a sympathy note after the tragic drowning death of his actress wife, Natalie Wood, during a boat trip to California’s Catalina Island. St. John had known Wood since childhood.
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Two months after Wood’s death, the two crossed paths at a dinner party and reconnected.
“That was it,” St. John’s friend and business partner Jayne Smith recalled to PEOPLE in 1982. “[Wagner] just started calling. They started dating and have been ever since. She’s really in love.”
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