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| Elizabeth Taylor |
| The Duchess of Windsor |
| Historical Marriages |
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| No. | From | To | Husband | Children | |
| 1 | 6 May 1950 | 29 Jan 1951 |
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Nicky Hilton | |
| 2 | 21 Feb 1952 | 26 Jan 1957 |
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Michael Wilding (d. 1979) |
Michael Howard (1953) Christopher Edward (1955) |
| 3 | 2 Feb 1957 | 22 March 1958 |
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Mike Todd (until his death) | Elizabeth Frances "Liza" (6 Aug 1957) |
| 4 | 12 May 1959 | 6 March 1964 |
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Eddie Fisher |
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| 5 | 15 March 1964 | 26 June 1974 |
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Richard Burton (Canada) | |
| 6 | 10 Oct 1975 | 29 July 1976 |
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Richard Burton (Botswana) | |
| 7 | 4 Dec 1976 | 7 Nov 1982 |
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Senator John Warner | |
| 8 | 6 Oct 1991 | 31 Oct 1996 |
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Larry Fortensky |
Christopher Edward Wilding was born on 27 February 1955 – his mother's 23rd birthday.
In 1964, Elizabeth Taylor adopted a daughter called Maria (born in Germany in 1961).
Richard Burton adopted Liza and Maria during his first marriage to Taylor.
The third marriage (Michael Todd) was the only one not to end in divorce.
Elizabeth Taylor died in 2011, aged 79.
The Duchess of Windsor was born Bessie Wallis Warfield, in 1896. She died in 1986.
| No. | From | To | Husband | |
| 1 | 8th November 1916 | 1927 |
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Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. |
| 2 | 21st July 1928 | May 1937 |
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Ernest Aldrich Simpson |
| 3 | 3rd June 1937 | 28th May 1972 (his death) |
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Edward, Duke of Windsor |
Jean Armour (1765–1834) was the wife (from 1788 until his death in 1796) of
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Robert Burns |
| Julius Caesar's third (or fourth) and last wife, from 59 BC until his assassination 15 years later (Pliny the Younger's third and last wife had the same name) |
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Calpurnia |
| Marie Sklodowskaya married |
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Pierre Curie |
| Married his former student Mileva Marić in 1903 (they separated in 1914 and divorced in 1919); later married his first cousin Elsa Löwenthal (née Einstein) |
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Albert Einstein |
| Married to the future Lord Melbourne, 1805–28 (they separated, and she died, before he inherited the peerage or became Prime Minister) |
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Lady Caroline Lamb |
| Husband of Marie Antoinette |
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Louis XVI |
| Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife |
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Marie Louise (of Austria) |
| Wife of Francis II of France |
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Mary Queen of Scots |
| Married Constanze Weber, 1782 |
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Mozart |
| Frances Nesbit: wife of |
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Nelson |
| Married Aurelia Tizon (1929, d. 1938), Maria Eva Duarte (1945, d. 1952), Maria Estela (Isabel) Martinez (1961, he died in 1974; she succeeded him as President) |
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Juan Peron |
| Alexander the Great's wife |
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Roxana |
| Xant(h)ippe, renowned for her short temper, was the wife of |
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Socrates |
| Alice FitzWarin (or FitzWarren) was the wife of
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Dick Whittington |
| Married Jennifer Garner, star of TV CIA drama Alias, in 2005 (separated 2015) |
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Ben Affleck |
| Married to the actress Brooke Shields 1997–9 (tennis star) |
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André Agassi |
| George Burns's second wife (1926–64) and comedy partner |
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Gracie Allen |
| Married Soon–Yi Previn, adopted daughter of André Previn and Mia Farrow, 1991 |
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Woody Allen |
| Mötley Cröe drummer Tommy Lee (1995–8), rock star Kid Rock (2006–7), poker player Rick Salomon (2007–08, 2014–2015) |
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Pamela Anderson |
| Married Katie Price (Jordan) in 2005 at Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey in the TV series) – divorced in 2009 |
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Peter Andre |
| Married to film director Blake Edwards, from 1969 until his death in 2010 |
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Julie Andrews |
| Former sex worker Daisy Parker (1919–23), pianist Lil Hardin (1924–38), Alpha Smith (1938–42), singer Lucille Wilson (from 1942) |
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Louis Armstrong |
| Married to former footballer Lee Chapman, since 1988 |
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Leslie Ash |
| Married to Gerald Scarfe since 1981 (previously engaged to Paul McCartney, but ended the relationship in 1968 when she found him in bed with Francie Schwartz) |
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Jane Asher |
| Humphrey Bogart's wife, from 1945 until his death in 1957 (his 4th and only really famous wife, and the mother of his two children); subsequently married Jason Robards (1961–9) |
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Lauren Bacall |
| Former Bond girl, married to Ringo Starr since 1981 |
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Barbara Bach |
| Married to US actress Paula Stewart (1953–8), Angie Dickinson (1965–80), lyricist Carole Bayer Sager (1982–91); and to non–celebrity Jane Hansen (from 1993) |
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Burt Bacharach |
| Married to actress Catherine Deneuve (1965–72), model Marie Helvin (1975–82) |
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David Bailey |
| Married to Kim Basinger (1993–2002) |
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Alec Baldwin |
| Married Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) 1999 |
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Zoe Ball |
| Mel Brooks's second wife (from 1964 until her death in 2005) |
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Anne Bancroft |
| Welsh–born fashion designer: married to the pop star Sandie Shaw, 1968–78 |
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Jeff Banks |
| Married Penelope Cruz, 2010 |
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Javier Bardem |
| Israeli pianist and conductor (born in Argentina): married to Jaqueline du Pré, from 1967 until her death in 1987 aged 42 (she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1973) |
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Daniel Barenboim |
| Husband of Labour cabinet minister Jennie Lee |
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Aneurin Bevan |
| Married to Tessa Wyatt (1972–7) |
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Tony Blackburn |
| Married Australian model Miranda Kerr in 2010 (separated in 2013) |
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Orlando Bloom |
| Married to Hugh Pollock (1924–42), Darrell Waters (from 1943, until his death in 1967; she died in 1968). Pollock was the father of her two daughters |
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Enid Blyton |
| Married to John Cleese (1968–78): appeared in some Monty Python television episodes, and in the first two films; co–wrote and co–starred in Fawlty Towers |
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Connie Booth |
| Soviet gymnast Ludmilla Tourischeva (a four–time Olympic gold medallist, 1968–76) married, in 1977 (double gold medallist in 1972) |
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Valeriy Borzov |
| Pop star who married supermodel Iman |
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David Bowie |
| Cartoonist, once married to Anna Ford |
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Mark Boxer (Marc) |
| Married to Emma Thompson, 1989–95 |
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Kenneth Branagh |
| Married to Katy Perry from October 2010 to July 2012
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Russell Brand |
| Footballer: married Frankie Sandford, of the Saturdays, in 2014 |
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Wayne Bridge |
| Former model, married to Billy Joel 1985–94 (the Uptown Girl) |
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Christie Brinkley |
| Comedian and satirist: married former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq in 2010 |
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Charlie Brooker |
| Married to Whitney Houston (1992–2007 – she died 2012) |
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Bobby Brown |
| Poet Elizabeth Barrett married (1846) |
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Robert Browning |
| Film director: married to fellow director Kathryn Bigelow (1989–91), actress Linda Hamilton (1997–9) and former actress Suzy Amis (2000 to date) |
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James Cameron |
| Johnny Cash's second wife, from 1967 until her death in 2003: country singer |
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June Carter |
| Married to her mentor, Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, 1993–8 |
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Mariah Carey |
| Married Alexander George McCorquodale (1927–32) and his cousin Hugh McCorquodale (1936, until his death in 1963) |
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Barbara Cartland |
| Married Mildred Harris, Lita Grey, Paulette Goddard, and Oona O'Neill (daughter of the US playwright Eugene O'Neill) |
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Charlie Chaplin |
| Married to co–presenter Maggie Philbin, from 1982 until 1993 |
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Keith Chegwin |
| Petitioned for divorce from Greg Allman after 10 days in 1975 |
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Cher |
| Married to the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, from 1930 until her death in 1976 |
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Agatha Christie |
| Fabric designer Celia Birtwell, 1969–74 (fashion designer) |
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Ossie Clark |
| Married to the actress Talia Balsam, 1989–93; subsequently married the London–based Lebanese–British lawyer and activist Amal Ramzi Alamuddin, in 2014 (in Venice) |
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George Clooney |
| Married Cheryl Tweedie of Girls Aloud, 2006 (divorced 2010) |
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Ashley Cole |
| Married to Kris Kristofferson, 1973–80; previously had relationships with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, and is often held responsible for the break–up of CSN&Y |
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Rita Coolidge |
| Married to Ed Balls, since 1998 (they were the first married couple to serve together in the British cabinet) |
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Yvette Cooper |
| Married Mexican businesswoman Laura Álvarez in 2013 (his third wife – she runs a Fair Trade coffee import business) |
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Jeremy Corbyn |
| Married comedian David Mitchell in 2012 |
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Victoria Coren |
| Second wife (2011 to present) is actress Rachel Weisz, who won an Oscar in 2006 for The Constant Gardener |
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Daniel Craig |
| First wife of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
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Joan Crawford |
| Married actresses Mimi Rogers (1987–90), Nicole Kidman (1990–2001), Katie Holmes (2006–12) |
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Tom Cruise |
| Married fellow Oscar winner Javier Bardem, 2010 |
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Penelope Cruz |
| English jazz–pop musician (primarily piano), singer, songwriter and radio presenter: married model and author Sophie Dahl (granddaughter of Roald Dahl, Patrician Neal and Stanley Holloway) in 2010 |
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Jamie Cullum |
| Married theatre director Sophie Hunter in 2015 (on St. Valentine's Day) |
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Benedict Cumberbatch |
| Married to Jeremy Irons from 1978 (his second wife) |
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Sinead Cusack |
| Married to the Oscar–winning US actress Patricia Neal, 1953–83 (5 children) |
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Roald Dahl |
| Married golfer Sam Torrance in 1988 (an actress; he proposed on Concorde on the way to play in the Ryder Cup) |
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Suzanne Danielle |
| Married to Cleo Laine, from 1958 until his death in 2010 |
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Johnny Dankworth |
| Former swimmer: married to sprinter Derek Redmond, 1994–2000 |
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Sharron Davies |
| Second wife (of three) was Sandra Dickinson, 1978–94 |
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Peter Davison |
| Married to American actress, writer and director Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, since 1996. They have two sons (Ronan b. 1998 and Cashel b. 2002) |
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Daniel Day–Lewis |
| Married to actor Michael Williams, from 1971 until his death in 2001 |
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Judi Dench |
| Married Jennifer Saunders in 1985 |
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Adrian Edmondson |
| Married to Paula Abdul, 1992–4; partner of Demi Moore, 1986–7 |
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Emilio Estevez |
| Roy Rogers's acting partner, and his third wife (from 1947 until his death in 1998) |
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Dale Evans |
| Married to British tennis player John Lloyd (1979–87), US Olympic skier Andy Mill (1988–2006), Australian golfer Greg Norman (2008–9) |
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Chris Evert |
| Married to David A. Stewart (of Eurythmics), 1987–96 |
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Siobhan Fahey |
| John Dunbar, the artist and co–founder of the gallery where John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met, was the first of three husbands of |
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Marianne Faithfull |
| Married Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn; also had a long–term relationship with Woody Allen (and bore his only child, Satchel – now known as Ronan Farrow) |
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Mia Farrow |
| Married to John Stapleton for over 40 years (both TV journalists and presenters) |
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Lynn Faulds–Wood |
| Married to French film director Roger Vadim (1965–73), US political activist Tom Hayden (1973–90), Ted Turner, founder of CNN (1991–2001) |
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Jane Fonda |
| Married to Nanette Newman, from 1955 until his death in 2013 |
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Bryan Forbes |
| Married to former Miss World Wilnelia Merced (a native of Puerto Rico, 29 years his junior) from 1983 until his death in 2017 |
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Bruce Forsyth |
| Married photographer Alexandra Hedison, 2014 |
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Jodie Foster |
| Married Peter Sellers (from 1977, until his death in 1980) and David Frost (1981–2) |
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Lynn Frederick |
| Married Lynn Frederick (1981–2) and Lady Carina Howard (from 1983, until his death in 2013) |
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David Frost |
| Actress who married Gary Kemp (1988–95) and Jude Law (1997–2003) |
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Sadie Frost |
| Married "comedian" Elliott Spencer, Jan 2015 |
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Stephen Fry |
| Married Mickey Rooney (1942–3), Frank Sinatra (1945–6) and Artie Shaw (1951–7) |
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Ava Gardner |
| Married to Anna Gordy (elder sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy), 1961–76
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Marvin Gaye |
| Married to Cindy Crawford, 1991–5 |
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Richard Gere |
| Joan Collins's 5th husband (2002) |
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Percy Gibson |
| Mike Tyson's wife (1988–9) |
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Robin Givens |
| British rower – ranked No. 1 in the world, and an Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016: married naturalist, explorer and broadcaster Steve Backshall in 2016 |
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Helen Glover |
| Married (and divorced) Alvin Stardust |
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Lisa Goddard |
| Cabinet minister and former Times columnist: married fellow Times columnist Sarah Vine (known in Private Eye as Sarah Vain), who later switched to the Daily Mail, in 2001 |
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Michael Gove |
| Michael Denison's wife (from 1939) and widow |
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Dulcie Gray |
| Brian Rix's wife, and co–star in the Whitehall farces |
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Elspeth Gray |
| Married fellow athlete Jonathan (John) Bigg (1993?) |
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Sally Gunnell |
| Married Christian Horner, Warwickshire–born Team Principal of the Red Bull Formula One team, in 2015 – their first child, a son, was born in January 2017 |
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Geri Halliwell |
| Married to John Thaw, from 1973 until his death in 2002 |
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Sheila Hancock |
| Married to actress, singer and film producer Rita Wilson since 1988; they first met in 1981, when she appeared in an episode of the television sitcom Bosom Buddies, in which he starred, and starred together in Volunteers (1985) |
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Tom Hanks |
| Second husband (of five) was Orson Welles (1943–7) |
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Rita Hayworth |
| Johnny Depp's second wife (2015–17): an actress, whom he met while filming The Rum Diary,
released in 2011 |
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Amber Heard |
| Married to Dawn French, 1984–2010 |
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Lenny Henry |
| Kingsley Amis's second wife (and stepmother to Martin Amis): novelist |
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Elizabeth Jane Howard |
| Actress wife of John Profumo (died in 1998) |
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Valerie Hobson |
| Married (Noelene Edwards) in 1958, aged 19; divorced in 1981, remarried in 1982, divorced in 1986; later married Linda Kozlowski, co–star of his film blockbuster (1990–2014); has five children with Noelene and one with Linda |
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Paul Hogan |
| Married to Les Dennis, 1995–2003 |
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Amanda Holden |
| Married Maria Ellen Santiago on 15 August 1958 aged 21 (after proposing on their first date); died on 3 February 1959 (less than 6 months later) |
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Buddy Holly |
| Married to the singer Bobby Brown, 1992–2007 (she died in 2012 aged 48) |
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Whitney Houston |
| Charles Bronson's actress wife |
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Jill Ireland |
| Married to Lisa–Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis), 1994–6. His second wife (1996–9),
and the mother of his first two children, was Deborah Jeanne (Debbie) Rowe, his dermatologist's nurse
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Michael Jackson |
| John le Mesurier's second wife (1949–65)
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Hattie Jacques |
| Bianca Perez Morena de Macias (1971–8), Jerry Hall (1990–9)
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Mick Jagger |
| Married to James Bolam, with whom she co–starred in When the Boat Comes In (BBC1, 1976–81) |
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Susan Jameson |
| Married American artist and film director Andre Levitas at Hampton Court in 2014 (Welsh lyric mezzo –soprano; previously engaged to TV presenter Gethin Jones) |
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Katherine Jenkins |
| Married to German recording engineer Renate Blauel, 1984–8 (after the divorce he announced that he was not bisexual but gay). Formed a civil partnership with David Furnish on 21 December 2005 – the day after civil partnerships became legal in the UK – and married him on the ninth anniversary of the partnership (21 December 2014) |
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Elton John |
| Married to the Scottish aviation pioneer Jim Mollison, from 1932 to 1938 |
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Amy Johnson |
| Second wife (1993–2020) was Marina Wheeler QC; they have 6 children |
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Boris Johnson |
| Actress, married Peter Fleming – adventurer, travel writer, and brother of Ian |
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Celia Johnson |
| Married Melanie Griffith in 1976, when he was 26 and she was 18 (having lived together for 3 years); he had starred in The Harrad Experience (1973) with her mother Tippi Hedren; divorced less than a year later; this was his third marriage. They remarried in 1989 and divorced in 1996; their daughter Dakota was born in 1989. Also had a relationship with Patti D'Arbanville (1981–5). He married socialite and nursery teacher Kelley Phleger in 1999; they are still married (in 2022) and have three children |
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Don Johnson |
| Married to actors Jonny Lee Miller (1996–9), Billy Bob Thornton (2000–3), Brad Pitt (2014–19) |
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Angelina Jolie |
| Married to Nora Barnacle for the last ten years of his life (1931–41); they had their first "romantic assignation" on 16 June 1904, and their sexually explicit letters have aroused much curiosity, fetching high prices at auction |
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James Joyce |
| Married fellow TV presenter Tess Daly in 2003 – the year before she joined Bruce Forsyth as one of the original presenters of Strictly Come Dancing |
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Vernon Kay |
| Married to Prince Rainier II of Monaco, from 1956 until her death in 1982 |
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Grace Kelly |
| Married to Rebekah Wade, 2002–9 (she was Editor of The Sun, 2003–9) |
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Ross Kemp |
| Actress wife of Sir Michael Redgrave, and mother of his three children (Vanessa, Lynn and Corin) |
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Rachel Kempson |
| Married to Moira Shearer, from 1950 until her death in 2006 (he died in 2009) |
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Ludovic Kennedy |
| Married Dan Donovan (1988), Jim Kerr (1992), Liam Gallagher (1997) |
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Patsy Kensit |
| Married Chrissie Hynde (1984) and Patsy Kensit (1992) |
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Jim Kerr |
| Married the famous Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova |
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John Maynard Keynes |
| Married to Jemima Goldsmith (daughter of Sir James), 1995–2004 |
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Imran Khan |
| Tom Cruise's second wife (1990 – 2001); married New–Zealand–born country singer and guitarist Keith Urban in 2006 |
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Nicole Kidman |
| Irish comedian, married television presenter Cat Deeley in 2012 |
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Patrick Kielty |
| Married Elvis Costello 2003 (Canadian jazz singer and pianist) |
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Diana Krall |
| Real–estate developer who married Ivanka Trump in 2009, and became senior advisor to his father–in–law; admitted meeting Russians during and after the 2016 presidential election campaign, but denied any impropriety |
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Jared Kushner |
| Footballer, married television presenter Christine Bleakley in 2015 |
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Frank Lampard |
| Loose Women anchor: also co–presents Good Morning on Fridays with Eamonn Holmes (since 2000), and married him in 2010 |
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Ruth Langsford |
| Husband of actress Elsa Lanchester |
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Charles Laughton |
| Actor who married Sadie Frost and also had a child with Sienna Miller |
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Jude Law |
| Married to Eric Thompson from 1957 until his death from a heart attack in 1982, aged 53 (and mother of Emma Thompson) |
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Phyllida Law |
| Married Charles Saatchi in 2003, after the death of her first husband (journalist John Diamond) from throat cancer in 2001; they divorced in 2013 after pictures were published of him holding her by the throat at a table outside a London restaurant, in what he described as a "playful tiff" but which resulted in him being cautioned for assault and her leaving home |
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Nigella Lawson |
| Princess Anne's second husband (1992) |
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Tim Lawrence |
| Pamela Anderson (1995–8) |
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Tommy Lee |
| First and most famous of Tony Curtis's six wives (1951–62); he was the second and most famous of her three husbands, and they were the parents of Jamie Lee Curtis |
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Janet Leigh |
| Married Cynthia Powell on 23 August 1962 (divorced in 1968) |
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John Lennon |
| Austrian actress and singer (1898–1981): married composer Kurt Weill in 1926, divorced in 1933; remarried in 1937, he died in 1950; married US actor George Davis in 1951, he died in 1957; married (obscure) artist Russell Detwiler in 1962, he died in 1969 aged 44 (she was 71) |
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Lotte Lenya |
| Olympic gold medallist: married Steve Finan O'Connor (son of comedian Tom O'Connor, manager of former One Direction member Liam Payne, and former manager of the pop group All Saints) in 2006 |
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Denise Lewis |
| American singer: married his 13–year–old first cousin once removed, in 1957, when he was 22 and had already been married twice |
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Jerry Lee Lewis |
| Married to playwright Jack Rosenthal, from 1974 until his death in 2004 |
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Maureen Lipman |
| Mildred Davies: wife and co–star (in Safety Last, 1923) of |
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Harold Lloyd |
| Married Clark Gable in March 1939 – died in a plane crash in January 1942 |
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Carole Lombard |
| Married to Kurt Cobain, from 1992 until his suicide in 1994 |
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Courtney Love |
| Married to Sean Penn (1985–9), Guy Ritchie (2000–8) |
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Madonna |
| Graca Machel, the widow of former Mozambican president Samora Machel, was the third wife of |
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Nelson Mandela |
| Married to the actor and producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2013 |
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Meghan Markle |
| Married to Gwyneth Paltrow from 2003 to 2016 |
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Chris Martin |
| French–born actor: married Halle Berry in 2013 (previously dated Kylie Minogue) |
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Olivier Martinez |
| Married Anita Dobson, 2000 |
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Brian May |
| Jill Ireland's first husband |
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David McCallum |
| Married Linda Eastman in 1969 (she died in 1988), Heather Mills in 2002 (divorced in 2008), Nancy Shevell in 2011 |
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Paul McCartney |
| Married to Susan George, from 1984 until his death in 2010 (actor – Falcon Crest, Casualty, etc.) |
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Simon MacCorkindale |
| Married to the actress Tatum O'Neal, 1988–94 (tennis star) |
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John McEnroe |
| Mrs. Paul Daniels |
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Debbie McGee |
| Singer: married former World Superbike Champion James Toseland, in 2012
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Katie Melua |
| Married to the actor Hywel Bennett, 1970–88; 'in a relationship' with singer Michael
Ball, from 1992 (TV presenter, prominent in the 1960s)
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Cathy McGowan |
| Second husband (since 1998) is quantum chemist and university professor Joachim Sauer |
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Angela Merkel |
| Married the comedian Sarah Parkinson, three months before her death from cancer in 2003 (she was his second wife; they were 'unofficially' married in the Maldives in 2000) |
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Paul Merton |
| Married Justine Thornton QC, a former child actress, in 2011 |
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Ed Miliband |
| Tessa Jowell's second husband (from 1979) – international corporate lawyer, acted for Silvio Berlusconi and investigated in Italy for money laundering and tax fraud |
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David Mills |
| Married to Mary Hayley Bell (actress and writer) from 1941 until his death in 2005 aged 97 – she died 8 months later, aged 94 |
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John Mills |
| Fourth husband was David Gest (2002–7) |
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Liza Minnelli |
| Jim Dougherty (1942, when she was aged 16 yrs 18 days; they divorced in 1946) |
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Marilyn Monroe |
| Baseball player Joe di Maggio (1954; she filed for divorce in October 1954) | ||
| Playwright Arthur Miller (1956; they divorced in Mexico in 1961)
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| Wife of Jonathan Dimbleby: writer |
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Bel Mooney |
| Married to Bruce Willis 1987–2000, Ashton Kutcher 2005–15 |
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Demi Moore |
| First two marriages (of four) were to actresses Suzy Kendall (1968–72) and Tuesday Weld (1975–80) |
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Dudley Moore |
| British actress: married (since 2012) to singer, songwriter and group leader Marcus Mumford |
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Carey Mulligan |
| Wendi Deng (1999–2013) was the third wife, and Jerry Hall (2016–) the fourth, of |
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Rupert Murdoch |
| Married Julia Lemigova in New York in 2014 (former tennis star) |
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Martina Navratilova |
| Joan Collins's second husband (1963–70 – English actor, singer and songwriter) |
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Anthony Newley |
| 'The Great Dane' – married to Sylvester Stallone, 1985–7 |
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Brigitte Nielsen |
| Barbara Hepworth's second husband |
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Ben Nicholson |
| Diplomat, diarist etc., married to the writer Vita Sackville–West |
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Harold Nicolson |
| Married to actresses Jill Esmond (1930–40), Vivien Leigh (1940–60), and Joan Plowright from 1961 until his death in 1989 |
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Laurence Olivier |
| Married to John McEnroe, 1986–92 |
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Tatum O'Neal |
| British portrait photographer, active in the 1960s, who had a long–term relationship with Faye Dunaway; they were married from 1983 to 1987, and had a son, born in 1980, who he later claimed was adopted (which she denied); he died in 2019, aged 81 |
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Terry O'Neill |
| Madonna's first husband (US actor – 1985–9) |
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Sean Penn |
| Played Carla in Cheers; married Danny de Vito |
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Rhea Perlman |
| American equestrian Sandy Pflueger is the second wife of (they married in 1997 and separated in 2012) |
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Mark Phillips |
| Married to Olga Khokhlova (from 1918 until her death in 1955) and Jacqueline Roque (from 1961 until his death in 1973) |
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Pablo Picasso |
| Married Jessica Taylor, formerly of the pop group Liberty X (formed by the five losing finalists from Popstars, 2001; split May 2007), Dec 2007 |
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Kevin Pietersen |
| Married to actress Vivien Merchant (1956–80) and writer Antonia Fraser (from 1980 until his death in 2008) |
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Harold Pinter |
| Pop singer and actress: married to Chris Evans 2001–7, married actor Laurence Fox (DS James Hathaway in Lewis) in 2007 |
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Billie Piper |
| Married to Jennifer Aniston 2000–5, and Angelina Jolie from 2014 |
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Brad Pitt |
| Poet: first wife of Ted Hughes, but committed suicide |
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Sylvia Plath |
| Film producer, married to Sophia Loren from 1966 until his death in 2007
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Carlo Ponti |
| Scottish TV presenter: married to Dan Hipgrove, the guitarist in Toploader, from 2001 to 2004 |
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Gail Porter |
| Actor – married Barbara 'Babs' Lord, out of Pan's People, in 1975 |
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Robert Powell |
| Married to Michael Jackson 1994–6, and Nicolas Cage 2002–4 (the second and third of her four husbands); she died in 2023 |
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Lisa Marie Presley |
| Married to Peter Andre (2005–9), martial artist/kickboxer Alex Reid (2010–11), builder Kieran Hayler (2013) |
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Katie Price (f.k.a. Jordan) |
| Married to Australian actress Coral Browne, from 1974 until her death in 1991 (he died in 1993) |
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Vincent Price |
| Married That's Life presenter Paul Heiney in 1980 |
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Libby Purves |
| Paul Merton's first wife (1990–8) |
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Caroline Quentin |
| Jean Michel Jarre's wife |
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Charlotte Rampling |
| Married to TV producer Desmond Wilcox, from 1977 until his death in 2000 |
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Esther Rantzen |
| Bruce Forsyth's assistant on The Generation Game, and the second of his three wives (1973–9) – they started an affair during his first marriage, and he'd already divorced his first wife when the series started |
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Anthea Redfern |
| English actress: married to the Italian actor Franco Nero, since 2006 (they also had a son together in 1969) |
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Vanessa Redgrave |
| Laurie Anderson, who had a UK No. 2 hit in 1981 with O Superman, was the third wife (from 2008 until his death in 2013) of |
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Lou Reed |
| Married model / lap dancer Nancy Sorrell, 2003 |
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Vic Reeves |
| Married her 4th husband, painter and decorator John Burns – her partner of 12 years, and 20 years her junior – 4 months before her death from cancer, aged 65, in February 2009 |
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Wendy Richard |
| Two members of Great Britain's women's hockey team, who married in 2013: in 2016 they became the first same–sex married couple to win Olympic gold as part of the same team, and the first British married couple to do so since 1920 |
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Helen Richardson |
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Kate Walsh | |
| English film director: married Madonna at Skibo Castle, near Dornoch, Sutherland, 2000 (divorced 2008) |
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Guy Ritchie |
| Mexican painter, married to Frida Kahlo (another Mexican painter) from 1929 to 1939 and from 1940 until her death in 1954 |
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Diego Rivera |
| Married to country singer Lyle Lovett, 1993–5 |
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Julia Roberts |
| Actress who married Alan Dobie and Rex Harrison |
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Rachel Roberts |
| Married eight times; first wife was Ava Gardner (1942–3 – before she was famous); his fifth wife was murdered along with her lover, a Serbian–born actor, stunt double and bodyguard (or he shot her and then himself) in 1966; his eighth marriage (1978) lasted longer than all the others put together, but they separated in 2012 and legally separated in 2014; he died in April 2014, aged 93 |
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Mickey Rooney |
| Singer in Guns 'n' Roses: married to Erin, the daughter of Don Everly, from April 1990 to January 1991 – he wrote Sweet Child o' Mine for her |
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W. Axl Rose |
| Married screenwriter Jane Goldman in 1988; her works include The Woman in Black (2012); they have three children |
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Jonathan Ross |
| Conservative politician – Energy Secretary under Cameron, Home Secretary under May: married to the journalist and critic A. A. Gill, 1990–5 |
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Amber Rudd |
| Wife of Leonard Cheshire VC |
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Sue Ryder |
| Married to singer Jack Jones (1967–9) and Robert Wagner (from 1990) |
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Jill St. John |
| US poker player and "celebutant": famous for marriages to actresses Elizabeth Daily (1995–2000), Shannon Doherty (2002–3) and Pamela Anderson (2007–08; 2014–2015) |
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Rick Salomon |
| Married model and singer Carla Bruni, Jan 2008 (French president) |
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Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Clara Wieck: concert pianist, wife of |
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Robert Schumann |
| Married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of the late President John F. Kennedy (daughter of his sister Eunice), in 1986 – separated 2011 after he admitted fathering a child 14 years earlier with a long–serving member of their household staff |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| British soul singer: married to German model Heidi Klum, 2005–14 |
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Seal |
| Married Anne Howe, Britt Ekland, Miranda Quarry and Lynn Frederick |
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Peter Sellers |
| Bandleader who married Lana Turner and Ava Gardner |
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Artie Shaw |
| Oscar–nominated actress: married to Stewart Granger, 1950–60 |
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Jean Simmons |
| Married to Peggy Harper (the ex–wife of his former manager – 1969–75), Carrie Fisher (1983–4) and Edie Brickell (since 1992) |
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Paul Simon |
| Married to (i) his childhood sweetheart Nancy Barbato, 1939–51; (ii) Ava Gardner, 1951–7; (iii) Mia Farrow, 1966–68; (iv) Barbara Marx (née Blakeley), the former wife of Zeppo Marx, from 1976 until his death in 1998 |
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Frank Sinatra |
| Married Rolling Stone Bill Wyman in 1989, when she was 19 and he was 46 (they had started dating in 1983); divorced in 1991 |
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Mandy Smith |
| Sarah Greene married |
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Mike Smith |
| Married to childhood friend Jason Alexander for 55 hours, in 2004; married to Kevin Federline 2004–7; he is the father of her (first) two children |
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Britney Spears |
| Welsh singer, married to Roger Moore 1953–61 (when they married, he was 26 and she was 38) |
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Dorothy Squires |
| Second and third wives were Brigitte Nielsen (1985–7) and Jennifer Flavin (from 1997) |
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Sylvester Stallone |
| Married Nicholas Ball (star of the TV series Hazell – ITV, 1978–9) and Billy Connolly (1992–) |
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Pamela Stephenson |
| Married to Alana Hamilton (ex–wife of US actor George Hamilton – Love at First Bite, Zorro the Gay Blade – 1979–84), Rachel Hunter (New–Zealand–born actress and model – 1990–2006), Penny Lancaster (English model – 2007–). Also had relationships with Britt Ekland (1975–7) and Kelly Emberg (1983–90), and has eight children by five different mothers: one with a fellow–student when he was 18, two with each wife, and one with Emberg |
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Rod Stewart |
| Married actress Trudie Styler in 1992 |
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Sting |
| Married actor James Brolin in 1998; previously (1963–71) married to Elliott Gould |
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Barbra Streisand |
| Married to fellow singer–songwriter Carly Simon, from 1972 to 1983 |
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James Taylor |
| Married Margaret Kempson in 1942 and Margaret Roberts in 1951 |
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Dennis Thatcher |
| Married to Diane Burgdorf, 1987–2005, and Sarah–Jane Russell (née Clemence – sister–in–law of Lord Rothermere) since 2008 |
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Mark Thatcher |
| Married to Kenneth Branagh 1989–95, Greg Wise 2003– |
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Emma Thompson |
| US actress, married British actor Gary Oldman (1990–2) and US actor Ethan Hawke (1998–2004) |
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Uma Thurman |
| Married American actress Jessica Biel, 2012 |
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Justin Timberlake |
| England rugby footballer, married Zara Phillips July 011 |
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Mike Tindall |
| Married since 1991 to actress and former model Kelly Preston (Mischief 1985, Twins 1988, Jerry Maguire 1996) |
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John Travolta |
| Married to former Radio 1 DJ (and Top of the Pops presenter) Peter Powell (1990–8), and to Grant
Bovey (2000–15)
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Anthea Turner |
| Girls Aloud member, married England footballer Ashley Cole in 2006; second husband (July 2014) is French restaurateur and nightclub owner Jean–Bernard Fernandez–Versini |
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Cheryl Tweedy |
| French film director: first husband of both Brigitte Bardot (1952–7) and Jane Fonda (1965–73) – also Catherine Deneuve had a son by him in 1963 |
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Roger Vadim |
| Mandy Smith's second husband, after Bill Wyman (Everton footballer) |
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Pat van den Hauwe |
| Celebrity chef, married to Fern Britton (same name as an England rugby player who, bizarrely, won Celebrity Masterchef in 2011!) |
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Phil Vickery |
| Natalie Wood's husband, 1957–62 and from 1972 until her death in 1981; married former Bond girl Jill St. John, 1990 |
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Robert Wagner |
| Married Dutch model Lara Stone, 2010 |
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David Walliams |
| Actress – played Doctor Who's assistant Romana, 1979–81: married to Tom Baker 1980–2, and
Richard Dawkins from 1992 (separated in 2016)
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(The Hon.) Lalla Ward |
| Married four times; his second wife (1977–87), and the mother of his two daughters (including EastEnders actress Hannah Waterman), was actress Patricia Maynard; his third wife (1987–98) was actress Rula Lenska |
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Dennis Waterman |
| Married Daniel Craig, 2011 |
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Rachel Weisz |
| Married (1985–1988) to actor David Easter (Brookside, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks) and (1988–2002) to Tim Healy (Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Benidorm, etc.) |
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Denise Welch |
| American actress: married to Dudley Moore (1975–80) and to Israeli violinist Pinchas Zuckerman (1985–98) |
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Tuesday Weld |
| Second wife (of three) was Rita Hayworth (1943–7) |
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Orson Welles |
| US rapper: married Kim Kardashian in 2014 |
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Kanye West |
| Married to Prunella Scales since 1963 |
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Timothy West |
| Pop singer (greatest success in the early to mid–eighties), married to Robert Fripp (best known as the guitarist and leader of the progressive rock group King Crimson) since 1986 |
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Toyah Willcox |
| Married the American actress Ayda Field in 2010 (after they'd been in a relationship since 2006) |
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Robbie Williams |
| Married Alexis Ohanian, co–founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit, in 2017 |
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Serena Williams |
| Married former video production assistant Blake Fielder–Civil in 2007 (they divorced in 2009; she died in 2011, aged 27) |
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Amy Winehouse |
| Married (i) assistant film director Jim Threapleton, 1998; (ii) (2003–11) film director Sam Mendes; (iii) (2012 to present) Ned Rocknroll (real surname Smith), a nephew of Richard Branson who works for Virgin Galactic – they met in 2011 on Branson's Necker Island |
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Kate Winslet |
| Twice married to Robert Wagner: 1957–62, and from 1972 until her mysterious death in 1981 |
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Natalie Wood |
| Married Geoffrey Durham (The Great Soprendo) in 1980; they separated in 2002 and divorced in 2005 (she died in 2016) |
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Victoria Wood |
| Married Swedish former model Elin Nordegren in 2004 |
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Tiger Woods |
| Married to actress Venetia Barrett (1952–86), and to Michele Dotrice (a rather more famous actress) from 1987 until his death in 2009 |
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Edward Woodward |
| Married to Paul Newman, from 1958 until his death in 2008 (co–starred with him in Harry & Son, 1984) |
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Joanne Woodward |
| Footballer who married Joy of the Beverley Sisters |
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Billy Wright |
| First wife of Ronald Reagan |
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Jane Wyman |
| Married Scottish rugby union international Kenny Logan, 2001 |
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Gabby Yorath |
| Canadian–born singer and songwriter: married actress Darryl Hannah in 2018 (his third wife) |
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Neil Young |
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