David Prescott's personal life is of no interest to anybody, except to his wife and son, and to his parents, whom he met for the first time in 1959, in Liverpool, UK. His Spanish and Portuguese Literature teachers at London University had a slight interest in it, but that ended in 1980. The same level of interest is shared nowadays by some of his students at Lisbon University's Faculty of Letters.

But the people who saw his four plays, or those plays he staged or produced, or the screenplays he wrote, they couldn't care less about his life, and neither do the people who regularly read on the internet his translations of the programs of the Cultural Center of Belém, the Portuguese Institute of Museums and other cultural institutions.