British politician, Michael Gove was married to Sarah Vine for over two decades and had two children together. Let’s meet his spouse and kids.
British politician, author and former journalist, Michael Gove has served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations since 2021.
He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served in various Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
Gove has twice run to become Leader of the Conservative Party, in 2016 and 2019, finishing in third place on both occasions.
Away from his works, he is also a family man. He was married to British columnist, Sarah Vine, for decades. Read on for more about his personal life.
Who is Michael Gove married to?
Michael Gove (real name: Graeme Andrew Logan) was born on August 26, 1967, in Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
His parents are Ernest Gove and Christine Gove. His father, Ernest, ran a fish processing business and his mother, Christine, was a lab assistant at the University of Aberdeen, before working at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf.
He had an adoptive sister named Angela Christine.
Growing up, he attended Sunnybank Primary School and Kittybrewster Primary School. Later, attended Robert Gordon’s College. From 1985 to 1988 he read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
After starting his career out as a journalist, Michael Gove became Conservative MP for Surrey Heath in 2005. Four years prior, he walked down the aisle with his partner and years after, they became parents.
So, Who is Michael Gove’s wife?
British politician Michael Gove has been married once in his entire life. Despite being single at the moment, he was previously married to Sarah Vine, a famous journalist.
Gove and Sarah were both journalists working at The Times when they first met in 1998. While Vine was arts editor, Gove was was comment editor.
They then became friends and later, the co-workers’ friendship grew romantically as they tied the knot in October 2001.
The couple were together for 21 years. They lived peacefully and prevailed over all the adversities that marriage brings and even became parents.
However, their marriage couldn’t stand as they both announced their decision to separate. They released a joint statement on July 2021 that read: “Michael and Sarah have agreed to separate and they are in the process of finalising their divorce.” In January 2022, a divorce was granted on the grounds of Gove’s unreasonable behaviour.
Who is Sarah Vine?
Sarah Vine (real name: Sarah Rosemary Vine) is a British journalist famous for being the ex-wife of Conservative MP Michael Gove.
She is a columnist and has written for the Daily Mail since 2013. She was previously arts editor at The Times.
Sarah Rosemary Vine was born in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom on 16 April 1967.
While there are no details about her parents, her family initially stayed in Rome before moving to Frascati and at age five, they moved to Italy.
She is not an only child to her mother and father as she has a brother named Ben Vine.
She reports that she returned to the United Kingdom at the age of 16, and that she attended the comprehensive schools Hammersmith and West London, Holland Park School, and Lewes Technical College near Brighton. Vine studied modern languages at University College London.
How many children does Michael Gove have?
In Michael Gove’s 21 years of marriage to Sarah Vine, the former couple became parents of two. They had two children; a daughter and a son.
The names of their kids are Beatrice Gove, and William Gove. They welcomed their first child in 2003 and barely a year later, in 2004, they gave birth to their second baby.
Vine is also the godmother to one of former Prime Minister David Cameron’s daughters.
Who is Beatrice Gove?
Beatrice Gove is a celebrity kid and the daughter and first child of politician Michael Gove and his ex-wife Sarah Vine, British columnist.
Beatrice, 20, is an internet celebrity and an influencer. Back in 2020, during Covid-19, when she was 17, she frequently shared snaps on TikTok where she kept her followers updated on her life during the crisis.
She would share videos and captioned it: ‘My family won’t even talk to me now because I have all the corona symptoms,’ while another read: ‘Can’t even smoke my weed because my cough is so bad’. Yet it seems that Michael Gove and his wife, Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine, were not impressed – all of the teenager’s videos are since been wiped from her profile.
In February 2020, Vine described Beatrice as ‘funny, feisty’ and ‘when it comes to the state of her bedroom… a total and utter savage.’ She elaborated: ‘Bea — or Beast as we call her, for obvious reasons — has always been pathologically messy’, relating her impressive ‘capacity for chaos’: ‘graffiti on her walls, the stains on her carpet, the clutter of make-up and the tsunami of clothes’.
Who is William Gove?
William Gove is the only son and second child to Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, and his ex-spouse Sarah Vine.
He was born in November 2004, and now 18 years old.
William is a footballer and a huge football fan who supports England’s football club, Chelsea.
What happened to Michael Gove’s son?
TheSun reports that Michael Gove’s son suffered a terrifying ordeal trapped by a taxi driver demanding cash.
William Gove, 18, was locked inside the Uber in Croatia in the early hours after refusing to give the man an extra €60.
His mother Sarah Vine, ex-wife of the Tory Cabinet minister, said she was forced to transfer money to his account to secure his release.
Ms Vine said she was woken by a call at 2.30am on Wednesday.
She wrote in her newspaper column: “It was my son, on holiday in Croatia. He was in an Uber returning to the flat he was sharing with friends — but the driver was demanding an extra €60, which, as a teenager on a budget, he didn’t have. When my son refused, the driver yelled at him in Croatian, locked the doors and drove past my son’s flat to another part of town. By now, trapped in a car with an angry Croat demanding money with menaces, my terrified son called me for help.”
After several frantic conversations, Ms Vine said she was able to transfer the money.
She wrote: “My son was shaken, but safe. Neither of us could wait for him to come home.”