Joseph Fiennes moved back to London from Spain so his kids can experience "culture" and "adversity".

The Shakespeare In Love star, 55, and his wife María Dieguez spent nearly a decade living in Mallorca, Spain with their two teenage daughters, Eva and Isabel, but they recently moved back to the UK capital and he's revealed the family wasn't happy about it at first.

He told The Times newspaper: "Within a week of arriving, my wife was mugged, her phone was stolen, my car was taken, the flat we bought went down by 14 per cent and the kids said: 'Dad, what are we doing here? It’s raining every day.'

“But it goes back to there being adversity. Yes, I want you to catch the Tube and the bus and understand how to negotiate timetables, the bad weather and a difficult city and the cost of living.

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