Old Pauline

A little more work on James Paul Harding, new Director of BBC News.

Among his contemporaries at St Paul's School were George Osborne and Matthew Gould, Britain's Ambassador to Israel; Ed Vaizey was a little older.

Danna and friend

At one stage he was married to fellow journalist Danna Harman, now writing for Haaretz and based in Jaffa. James and Danna took part in various learned panel discussions, when he was FT Bureau chief in Washington and she was writing for the Christian Science Monitor. They were divorced in 2008.

In 2009, James was engaged to Telegraph writer Kate Weinberg, daughter of  financier Sir Mark Weinberg. They were married at Westminster Synagogue, settled in Brook Green, and in 2011, after a babymoon, Kate gave birth to a boy.
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The Independent says that Harding and David Cameron played tennis together before Cameron became an MP, and in 2006 they were reported to be staying together at Jacob Rothschild's villa in Corfu. Jacob is Sir Mark Weinberg's business partner.

Mr Harding has claimed in the past to be a QPR supporter.