Blunkett gets a new bride
By Laura Miller
David Blunkett, former home secretary, is to remarry, his spokesman said today.
The Sheffield Brightside MP has announced he will wed Margaret Williams, a GP in Sheffield and mother of three teenage daughters.
After a three year relationship they announced their wedding plans to friends at Dr Williams’s 50th birthday party last weekend.
Blunkett’s personal life last hit the headlines in 2004 during his time as home secretary, over an affair he had with married Kimberly Quinn, the American-born publisher of conservative magazine The Spectator.
The three-year relationship ended acrimoniously in August 2004, when Fortier decided to return to her husband.
Controversy followed as Blunkett asserted he was the father of Quinn’s two-year-old son, William, and also her then-unborn child – claims Quinn denied.
Blunkett’s legal challenge to gain access to William ended in December 2004 when DNA tests confirmed him as the father of Quinn’s two-year-old son, but not of her newborn son.
