Did Stephen Hawking cheat on his wife?

The former wife of Stephen Hawking has described how she and their three children were “left behind” after the cosmologist was surrounded by “sycophantic” admirers following publication of his landmark work A Brief History of Time. read more

Stephen Hawking had grown upset over his wife's closeness to the choirmaster, Jonathan Hellyer Jones. Frustrated, Hawking moved into another house with the nurse who would become his second wife, Elaine Mason. Stephen Hawking left his wife Jane Hawking in 1990 for Elaine Mason. read more

It could include a reference to the acrimonious separation and divorce that followed, when Stephen left to live with his nurse, now his second wife, Elaine Mason, and Jane married her choirmaster and long-time family friend Jonathan Hellyer Jones. read more

Matters were complicated when his wife of 26 years began having an affair in the Eighties - with, apparently, Hawking’s tacit approval - with a choirmaster, whom she had befriended after his wife died of leukaemia. Elaine began accompanying Prof Hawking on trips abroad. Prof Hawking and Jane divorced in 1990. read more