<p>Boris Johnson has become the first British Prime Minister to divorce while in office in 250 years as papers filed by his Indian-origin ex-wife Marina Wheeler earlier this year were granted recently.</p>.<p>The 55-year-old had announced his engagement with fiancee Carrie Symonds soon after the decree absolute was filed in February.</p>.<p>Symonds, 32, who moved into Downing Street with Johnson in July last year, gave birth to their baby boy Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson last Wednesday.</p>.<p>According to the ‘Daily Mirror’, Johnson’s divorce from Wheeler, his second wife, was finalised with the grant of the decree just before the birth of the baby on April 29.</p>.<p>Wheeler, whose mother Dip Singh hailed from Punjab, is a barrister and columnist who has four grown up children with Johnson.</p>.<p>On February 18, she obtained permission from the Central Family Court in London to apply for a decree absolute, the legal document ending a marriage.</p>.<p>The newspaper believes the paperwork was filed “immediately” and it is believed Johnson and Wheeler could each end up with 4 million pounds from the divorce settlement.</p>.<p>Wheeler, who has previously written about surviving cancer, is due to publish ‘The Lost Homestead’ about her mother, who married her father, BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler, in 1962.</p>.<p>Johnson’s first marriage was to socialite Allegra Mostyn-Owen, between 1987 and 1993.</p>.<p>With his latest divorce, he has become the first British Prime Minister to divorce while in office since Augustus FitzRoy, the Duke of Grafton, back in 1769.</p>.<p>The Duke had shocked Georgian society at the time when he had a very public affair with the courtesan Nancy Parsons.</p>.<p>Matters were further complicated as his wife became pregnant by her lover, the Earl of Upper Ossory, with an Act of Parliament was approved granting their divorce in March 1769.</p>
<p>Boris Johnson has become the first British Prime Minister to divorce while in office in 250 years as papers filed by his Indian-origin ex-wife Marina Wheeler earlier this year were granted recently.</p>.<p>The 55-year-old had announced his engagement with fiancee Carrie Symonds soon after the decree absolute was filed in February.</p>.<p>Symonds, 32, who moved into Downing Street with Johnson in July last year, gave birth to their baby boy Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson last Wednesday.</p>.<p>According to the ‘Daily Mirror’, Johnson’s divorce from Wheeler, his second wife, was finalised with the grant of the decree just before the birth of the baby on April 29.</p>.<p>Wheeler, whose mother Dip Singh hailed from Punjab, is a barrister and columnist who has four grown up children with Johnson.</p>.<p>On February 18, she obtained permission from the Central Family Court in London to apply for a decree absolute, the legal document ending a marriage.</p>.<p>The newspaper believes the paperwork was filed “immediately” and it is believed Johnson and Wheeler could each end up with 4 million pounds from the divorce settlement.</p>.<p>Wheeler, who has previously written about surviving cancer, is due to publish ‘The Lost Homestead’ about her mother, who married her father, BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler, in 1962.</p>.<p>Johnson’s first marriage was to socialite Allegra Mostyn-Owen, between 1987 and 1993.</p>.<p>With his latest divorce, he has become the first British Prime Minister to divorce while in office since Augustus FitzRoy, the Duke of Grafton, back in 1769.</p>.<p>The Duke had shocked Georgian society at the time when he had a very public affair with the courtesan Nancy Parsons.</p>.<p>Matters were further complicated as his wife became pregnant by her lover, the Earl of Upper Ossory, with an Act of Parliament was approved granting their divorce in March 1769.</p>