Marina Wheeler

In August 2019, Wheeler revealed that she was diagnosed with cervical cancer earlier in the year and had undergone two operations to be in remission.

In September 2018, Johnson and Wheeler announced that they had separated "some time ago", following continuing allegations of marital infidelity against Johnson. It was also announced that divorce proceedings had started. They reached a financial settlement in February 2020.

In February 2016, she became a Queen's Counsel.

On 8 May 1993, a pregnant Wheeler married her childhood friend Boris Johnson, whose previous marriage had been annulled a couple of weeks earlier. They had met again and teamed up together in Brussels, where he was covering the European Parliament for The Daily Telegraph. Their eldest daughter was born on 12 June 1993. Together they have four children: Lara Lettice, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches and Theodore Apollo.

After Cambridge, Wheeler returned to Brussels and worked there for four years. In 1987 she was called to the Bar, practising from chambers in London at One Crown Office Row. In her work as a barrister, Wheeler specialises in mental health matters and discrimination claims. In January 2004 she was appointed to the B-Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. In 2009, she joined the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal as a barrister member.

She was educated at the European School of Brussels, and then in the early 1980s at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where she wrote for the student magazine Cantab.

Marina Claire Wheeler QC (born 18 August 1964) is a British lawyer, author, columnist and estranged wife of British prime minister Boris Johnson. As a barrister, she specialises in public law, including human rights, and is a member of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2016.