Why did Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde divorce?

Very few of them did that. I was desperate; I didn't think I could carry on, because I was so drained.” Five years after their divorce, Stephen married one of his carers, Elaine Mason. Before the break-up, Jane had begun a relationship with a musician, Jonathan, who became her husband. read more

Jane Wilde felt that she was being mistreated by the nurses and assistants of Prof. Hawking and Prof. Hawking felt that Jane Wilde had stopped loving him and loved Jonathan Hellyer Jones. After taking divorce from Jane Wilde in 1995, Hawking married Elaine Mason. read more

And Jane Hawking, who seems slightly in a state of shock about the turn of events, is quietly adamant, 'for legal reasons', that she does not want to go over that ground at all in this interview, so we sit in her conservatory and talk about that bit of time past. read more

When Jane Wilde married a young research student named Stephen Hawking in 1965, she already knew he was seriously ill. A schoolfriend broke the news a couple of years before, saying that Stephen was suffering from "some terrible, paralysing, incurable disease". read more