His wife, the American-born Caroline Middleton DeCamp from Cincinnati, was a close partner in his political life until her death in 2000. Shunning publicity, she was a lifelong advocate of state-funded education. He once called her “my socialist soul mate.” (The couple met in 1949 at Oxford and he proposed marriage to her nine days later on a park bench. In later years, they installed the same bench in the garden of their home in Holland Park in west London.)
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