Jemima Goldsmith | |
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Khan at the GAVI conference, 2011
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Born |
Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith 30 January 1974 Westminster, London, England |
Other names | Jemima Khan |
Citizenship |
British Pakistani |
Alma mater |
University of Bristol University of London |
Occupation | Journalist, campaigner |
Spouse(s) | Imran Khan (m. 1995; div. 2004) |
Parent(s) |
James Goldsmith Annabel Stewart |
Relatives |
Zac Goldsmith (brother) Ben Goldsmith (brother) Clio Goldsmith (cousin) |
Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith (/dʒᵻˈmaɪmə/; also known, since her first marriage, as Jemima Khan; born 30 January 1974) is a British journalist and campaigner. She is an associate editor of New Statesman and European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair. Goldsmith married Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan in 1995, and had two sons. The couple divorced in 2004, though they remain close to each other.
Born in London's Westminster Hospital, Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith is the eldest child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and financier Sir James Goldsmith. Her mother was from an Anglo-Irish family and her father, the son of luxury hotel tycoon and former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Major Frank Goldsmith, who was a member of the prominent Goldsmith family, which was of Jewish and German background. Her parents had a polyamorous relationship in which they were married to different partners but, in 1978, they married to legitimise their children. Goldsmith has two younger brothers, Zac Goldsmith and Ben Goldsmith, and five paternal and three maternal half-siblings, including Robin Birley and India Jane Birley.