Reunited with Stephen ; Jane Hawking's painful divorce from the famous scientist led to years of estrangement. But now he's free of his controversial second marriage the family rift is finally healing

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: June 18, 2007 | Copyright information

WHEN Jane Hawking first published an account of her 25-year marriage to the wheelchair-bound cosmological genius Stephen Hawking in 1997 it was, not surprisingly, a bitter book. Jane had married Hawking at 20, borne him three children, facilitated his spectacular cerebral life and cared for his physical needs as his body was steadily robbed of strength, movement and speech by motor neurone disease (MND).

Then, on their wedding anniversary in 1990, Hawking informed her he was leaving her for Elaine Mason, one of the nurses who, ironically enough, had been charged with alleviating the ...

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