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> ... his wife is pregnant.

Prime Minister Johnson is not married.

In 1987, he married Allegra Mostyn-Owen. That was annulled in 1993.

Twelve days later he married Marina Wheeler.

Johnson and Wheeler finalised their divorce in February 2020.

On February 29th Johnson announced his engagement to Carrie Symonds.

He is engaged to be married, and his fiancée is expecting.

But he is not currently married.

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Relationships

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Out of my pure curiosity for the mind of some HN commenters, why in the world would you go through the effort of writing such a detailed and pedantic comment focusing on a small irrelevant detail like that, about an hospitalized man who is expecting a child?

In case it’s not clear, I am not being snarky in any way and respect you, I just find your comment so out of touch that I genuinely wanted to understand the reasons for you writing it.

As fate would have it, I had been discussing a closely related issue with someone else, and the section from the wikipedia page was immediately to hand. In a sense, I was in "transfer information mode" and had the source material there in my editor and ready to go. So in response to a factually incorrect piece of text I dropped in the source material that served as a correction.

<fx: shrug /> It happens to me that sometimes I'm focused on something to the extent that I don't always see the bigger picture. I don't wish the man harm, I do hope he makes a complete recovery.

Thank you, that was a gentleman’s reply.

Any time someone gives the guy’s full name it’s a clear indicator of a certain agenda. Give it a rest. Dredge it up when he’s recovered or maybe, if he doesn’t survive this, after a respectful interval following his death.

I have edited my comment. It now no longer gives his full name, nor mentions all of the documented relationships.

I don’t think it’s the full names the parent comment is taking issues with here.

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