Family
In 1970 McGowan married actor Hywel Bennett, who appeared in such films as The Family Way (1966) and The Virgin Soldiers (1969). They had a daughter, Emma. The marriage was dissolved in 1988 and, since the early 1990s, she has been the partner of Michael Ball. Ball was godfather to McGowan's grandson, Connor, son of Emma.
McGowan's brother John McGowan was a disc jockey in 1965 on King Radio, a pirate radio station broadcasting from a fort in the Thames Estuary. In the mid 1990s the death from ovarian cancer of his wife Angela, a friend of McGowan since their teens, led to his becoming co-founder of a charity supporting research into the disease.
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“I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment’s pain.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)