In 1963, Jane Wilde learned that her boyfriend, Stephen Hawking, had motor neuron disease. Doctors told the 21-year-old that he had, at most, two years to live. But two years later, the young ...

Jane Hawking, the first wife of late physicist and author Stephen Hawking, has raised a few issues with the 2014 film, The Theory of Everything. For many filmmakers, keeping to historical facts is ...

His marriage to Jane, with whom he had three children ... With his daughter, Lucy, Hawking published a series of science books for children, from whom he received many letters.

Jane was also from St Albans, and was a modern languages undergraduate. She had met Hawking at a New Year’s party, before his diagnosis. The couple decided to marry quickly, because they did not ...