346:. Mostyn-Owen's job was overshadowed by Johnson's who was reportedly "married to his job". According to Mostyn-Owen, Johnson showed neither sympathy nor interest in her career, and she found herself sitting alone in their apartment rarely spending an evening with her husband. She would often not know where he was, "The really bad times were when he didn't tell me he was going to be away."
268:. The pair met as a result of a supposed error on his part. He was invited to a party that she co-hosted but arrived on the wrong night with a bottle of wine. She was reading an Economics textbook when he showed up at her door. Mostyn-Owen recalled their exchange, "There's this stranger at the door who goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh." I'd never met him but he said he'd seen me at a
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After divorce from
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The reception was held at the Mostyn-Owens' country house, a grade II-listed estate called
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describing it "as a cross between La Dolce Vita and
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