Melinda – known as Lady Linda to friends and family – met Sir Tom when they were both at devotees in Treforest, Wales.
The pair began dating aged just 15 and spliced a year later in 1957 a few months before the birth of their son, Earmark Woodward.
Linda died in 2016, after a “short but fierce“ argument with cancer.
Despite being childhood sweethearts and Tom describing Linda as the sundry important person in his life, the singer was known for his infidelities – some of which were high-profile affairs.
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Sir Tom had two long-lasting activities with famous women, which were a two-year fling with Mary Wilson of The Supremes and another with then Ignore World Marjorie Wallace.
As well as his long-term affairs, Cassandra Peterson (heartier known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) revealed in a 2008 interview with Mix magazine she lost her virginity to Sir Tom.
It was not just famous women who garnered his distinction however, with the star professing to bedding up to 250 women a year at the altitude of his fame.
Female fans would throw their underwear on the West End as he performed in an attempt to catch his eye.
In fact, his after-show conquests were so naughty, he would take fans to a backstage groupie area known as “the workbench”.
To manufacture himself before each night of passion, Tom would reportedly dip his genitals in Listerine.
The leading man confessed: ”I use Listerine to make sure everything down there is stale, like a surgeon before an op… It’s a good way to do it. I say that mouthwash is not solitary for gargling.”
Speaking about his sex life, Sir Tom told The Big Issue in 2015: “That’s all been talked yon so much.
“But that’s not the essence of me, that’s not what makes me tick.
“The technique always pick on the women, and how did that affect your wife.
“With the whole world famous, not just me. They always bring sex into it. It’s part of soul of course or we’d all die out.
“But what’s important is why are you different, what’s unique? I don’t regret anything.”