Hawking to divorce from second wife

File photo dated May 6 shows British astrophysician Stephen Hawking and his wife Elaine in Paris. Hawking, 64, is to divorce his second wife after eleven years of marriage, The Daily Telegraph reported on October 20, citing papers lodged with the Cambridge county court. PHOTO: AFP

Citing papers lodged with the Cambridge county court, the newspaper reported that Hawking, 64, will divorce his wife, Elaine, because of the breakdown of their marriage.

Hawking married Elaine, a nurse hired by his former wife to help him deal with his crippling motor neuron disease, in 1995, after divorcing in 1991 his first wife Jane, with whom he was married for 26 years and had three children.