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Marina Claire Wheeler (born 18 August 1964) is a British lawyer and writer. As a
barrister A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...
, she specialises in
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, including
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, and is a member of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal. She was appointed
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in 2016. She is the author of '' The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab'' (2020) and is an ex-wife of former British prime minister
Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
.


Early life and education

Marina Claire Wheeler was born in
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on 18 August 1964, to Charles Wheeler, a
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correspondent, and his second wife Dip Singh, an
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Punjabi
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. Her elder sister is Shirin Wheeler. Wheeler was educated at
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and then the European School of Brussels, and then in the early 1980s at
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...
, where she wrote for the student magazine ''
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''. At the European School, she became friendly with
Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
, later a
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and politician.


Career

After Cambridge, Wheeler returned to Brussels and worked there for four years. In 1987, she was
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, practising from
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in
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at One Crown Office Row. In her work as a barrister, Wheeler specialises in
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matters and
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claims. In January 2004, she was appointed to the B-Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. In 2009, she joined the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal as a barrister member. Of her legal work, Wheeler has stated: In February 2016, she was appointed
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.


Personal life

On 8 May 1993, a pregnant Wheeler married her childhood friend Boris Johnson, whose previous marriage had ended 12 days earlier. They had met again and teamed up together in Brussels, where he was covering the
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for ''
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''. Together they have four children, including Lara Lettice, their eldest child born 12 June 1993. In September 2018, Johnson and Wheeler issued a statement confirming that after 25 years of marriage, they had separated "several months ago" and begun divorce proceedings. They reached a financial settlement in February 2020, and the divorce was finalised by November 2020. In August 2019, Wheeler revealed that she had been diagnosed with
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earlier in the year and had undergone two operations to be in remission.


Memoirs

In 2020 her memoir '' The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab'', detailing her family's history in India, was published. Her ancestry goes back to the city of
Sargodha Sargodha ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a city and capital of Sargodha Division, located in Punjab province, Pakistan. It is Pakistan's 12th largest city by population and one of the fastest-growing cities of the country. Sargodha is also known as ...
in West Punjab, present-day
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, with her maternal family migrating to present-day
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after the
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. It was shortlisted for the 2021
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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wheeler, Marina 1964 births Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Boris Johnson family British columnists British people of Indian descent British people of Punjabi descent British women lawyers English barristers English King's Counsel Living people Lawyers from London 21st-century King's Counsel Spouses of prime ministers of the United Kingdom British women columnists Alumni of the European Schools