Personal Life
Freud's first wife was Caroline Hutton with whom he had two sons: George Rupert Freud and Jonah Henry Freud. Caroline subsequently married the 9th Earl Spencer, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
His second wife is Elisabeth Murdoch, second daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch head of News Corporation. When the couple began dating (while working as colleagues), she was pregnant with a second child by her first husband and business partner, Elkin Pianim (the son of Ghanaian financial and political mogul, Kwame Pianim). The couple married in August 2001 at Blenheim Palace. They have two children, Charlotte Emma Freud, born in 2000, and Samson Murdoch Freud, born in 2007.
He is a friend of several members of the Conservative party including George Osborne and David Cameron. Freud has also invited Cameron to many events and is part of the so-called 'Notting Hill Set' of influential Conservative-linked figures. Murdoch and Freud own Burford Priory, in Oxfordshire, and are also considered members of the Chipping Norton set.
In 2012, he was caught by police driving his Ferrari at 117mph. He was fined £830 and banned from driving for six months as a result.
Read more about this topic: Matthew Freud, Biography
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