Hand clasped in his as she takes the evening air with her US boyfriend, a clearly smitten Lily James is a sight to gladden her friends and fans.

Few will be quite so cheered though as Dominic West’s wife Catherine – who faced the humiliation of her husband being photographed in a clinch with the actress last year after the pair finished filming in Rome.

Now, Downton Abbey star Lily has been spotted enjoying a romantic break with rock star lover Michael Shuman, 35, at the luxury L’Horizon Hotel and Spa in Palm Springs, California, and out enjoying the sun-drenched city’s street life under the palm trees.

Lily James and Michael Shuman from Queens of the Stone Age hold hands on their stroll in Palm Springs, California

The hotel was a favourite celebrity destination in the 1950s and 1960s, attracting the biggest names in Hollywood’s golden era, such as Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.

And Lily, 32, looked every inch the modern screen star on her evening stroll, wearing a denim and suede jacket, a Burberry crossbody bag over a camisole, high-waist buttoned trousers and £750 Dior kitten heel slingbacks.

An onlooker said: ‘They looked very happy and relaxed, smiling at one another and looking very much in love.’

Lily James and married actor Dominic West pictured during a weekend in Rome in 2020

Dominic West and his wife Catherine Fitzgerald later insisted all was well with their marriage

The mini-break was a chance for Lily to take time out before work on her new TV mini-series, Pam & Tommy, being filmed two hours’ drive away in Los Angeles, in which she plays Baywatch star Pamela Anderson.

Lily James Michael Shuman, bass player with rock group Queens Of The Stone Age, were first spotted together in February when she was filming romcom What’s Love Got To Do With It in the UK.

Last autumn, photographs emerged of Ms James and Mr West, 51, together in Rome, in a clinch over lunch and sharing a scooter ride around the city.

West and his landscape designer wife Catherine FitzGerald, 49, later insisted that all was well with their ten-year marriage.

Source: Daily Mail US