Sally Feldman is Dean of Media, Arts and Design at Westminster University. She married the broadcaster Professor Laurie Taylor on a gondola in Las Vegas last December. “It was very romantic,” she says. “We both have families from other marriages, and it just seemed the most natural thing to slip off and do it.” She will spend her birthday with her children and “my best friend, Jenni Murray”. RGT
Birthdays today
Lavinia Byrne, writer, 64; Neneh Cherry, singer, 47; Lord Condon, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1993-2000, 64; Garth Crooks, broadcaster and former footballer, 53; Fou Ts’ong, concert pianist, 77; Baroness Falkender, political secretary to Harold Wilson, 1956-83, 79; Dame Margaret Fry, chairman, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1990-91, 80; Eva Herzigova, model, 38; Hugh Johnson, wine expert, 72; Richard Park, broadcaster, 63; Andrew Parrott, conductor and musicologist, 64; Sharon Stone, actress, 53; Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, 59; Peter Wormald, Registrar General for England and Wales, 1990-96, 75; The Earl of Wessex, 47.