Editing Tim Rice (section)

==Personal life==
On 19 August 1974, Rice married Jane Artereta, daughter of Colonel Alexander Henry McIntosh, [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]],<ref name="auto" /> and former wife of producer and talent agent [[Michael Whitehall]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/conservation/8917696/Why-Jane-Rice-wants-to-save-the-red-squirrel.html|title=Why Jane Rice wants to save the red squirrel|first=Roya|last=Nikkhah|date=27 November 2011|access-date=15 July 2020|website=Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> the couple having met while working at [[Capital Radio]]. The marriage unravelled in the late 1980s after the British tabloid newspapers revealed that he had been conducting an affair with the singer [[Elaine Paige]].<ref>Hastings, Christopher. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080921091131/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3023422/Elaine-Paige-Sex-drugs-and-musicals.html  "Elaine Paige: Sex, drugs and musicals"], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 20 September 2008.</ref> Jane retains the title Lady Rice as, despite obtaining a divorce [[decree nisi]], the couple never made it absolute and therefore they remain legally married.

Lady Rice manages the family's 33,000-acre [[Dundonnell]] estate which Sir Tim Rice bought in 1998 for £2 million. She has won awards for her conservation work with red squirrels.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Jane Rice wants to save the red squirrel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/conservation/8917696/Why-Jane-Rice-wants-to-save-the-red-squirrel.html |first=Roya |last=Nikkhah |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=27 November 2011 |access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref> They have two children, Eva Jane Florence, a novelist and singer-songwriter, and Donald Alexander Hugh, a film director and theatre producer who also helps to run Dundonnell.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independenttalent.com/directors/donald-rice/|title=Donald Rice|work=Independent Talent}}</ref> Eva, who was named after [[Eva Perón]], is the author of the novel ''The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets'', which was a finalist for the [[British Book Awards|British Book Award]] Best Read of the Year.

Rice has a second daughter, Zoe Joan Eleanor, from a relationship with Nell Sully, an artist.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nikkhah |first1=Roya |title='Musicals are not the be all and end all,' says Tim Rice |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/9991897/Musicals-are-not-the-be-all-and-end-all-says-Tim-Rice.html |access-date=3 April 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=14 April 2013}}</ref> He has a third daughter, Charlotte Cordelia Violet Christina, from a relationship with [[Laura-Jane Foley]], a writer. He has seven grandchildren.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/721643/Sir-Tim-Rice-baby-father-again-71-year-old-woman-37-years-his-junior|title=Baby joy for 71 year old Sir Tim Rice with woman 37 years his junior|first=Adam|last=Helliker|date=16 October 2016|work=Daily Express}}</ref>

Despite having no familial or personal ties to the club, Rice has been a fan of [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland AFC]] since his early childhood.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sunderland-relegation-fight---celebrity-9169247|title = Sunderland relegation fight – celebrity fan Sir Tim Rice gives his view|work=chroniclelive.co.uk|date = 2 May 2015}}</ref>

===Political views===
Previously a supporter of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], in 2007 Rice stated that the party were no longer interested in him and that his relationship with them had "irrevocably changed."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/feb/15/conservatives.uk|title=Tim Rice: Tories no longer love me|work=The Guardian|date=15 February 2007|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref> Rice and [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], both supporters of [[Margaret Thatcher]], attended her funeral in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-clarkson-shirley-bassey-and-tony-blair-but-no-mikhail-gorbachev-margaret-thatchers-funeral-guest-list-announced-8568236.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-clarkson-shirley-bassey-and-tony-blair-but-no-mikhail-gorbachev-margaret-thatchers-funeral-guest-list-announced-8568236.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Jeremy Clarkson, Shirley Bassey and Tony Blair, but no Mikhail Gorbachev: Margaret Thatcher's funeral guest list announced |work=The Independent |date=11 April 2013 |access-date=27 June 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Rice raised funds for the [[No Campaign (UK)|Euro No]] campaign in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/909043.stm|title=Anti-euro campaign launched|work=BBC News|date=4 September 2000|access-date=17 February 2020}}</ref> In 2014, he donated £7,500 to the [[UK Independence Party]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10656628/Dont-cry-for-me-David-Cameron-Sir-Tim-Rice-emerges-as-Ukip-donor.html|date=23 February 2014 | title= Sir Tim Rice emerges as Ukip donor |work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> In May 2016, he told ''[[The Spectator]]'' that he would vote for [[Brexit]] in the following month's [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|referendum on the issue]], saying: "It would be good to spend one's final years as part of a truly independent nation once more." He said he had voted to remain in the [[European Economic Community]] in 1975 "from a standpoint of ignorance".<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-spectator-poll-are-you-in-or-out-bob-geldof-tim-rice-joey-essex-have-their-say | title= The Spectator poll: Are You In or Out? Bob Geldof, Tim Rice & Joey Essex have their say | work=The Spectator | date=27 May 2016 | access-date=8 March 2021}}</ref>

===Religion===
Describing his religion, Rice stated in a 1982 interview, "Technically I'm [[Church of England]], which is really nothing. But I don't follow it. I wouldn't say I was a [[Christianity|Christian]]. I have nothing against it." Conversely, he also stated that he adapted the Biblical stories of Joseph and Jesus to musicals because "I'd always rather take a true story over an untrue one."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19821127&id=uzwsAAAAIBAJ&pg=6254,6671012|title=Lyricist is Unreligious|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref>

===Wealth===
According to ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' [[Sunday Times Rich List|Rich List]] of the UK's richest millionaires, Rice is worth £155 million as of 2020.<ref name="wealth1" />

In 2015, Rice expressed his indebtedness to the journalist [[Angus McGill]] as "the man responsible for Andrew Lloyd Webber and I having our first song recorded". Speaking at McGill's funeral,<ref>[https://47shoelane.wordpress.com/tributes/angus-mcgill/ "Angus McGill: The funeral and the wake"]. ''47 Shoe Lane'', 29 October 2015, retrieved 25 September 2017.</ref> Rice told a tale from his days at EMI about trying to rig the results of the ''[[London Evening Standard]]'' Girl of the Year competition in 1967. As "glorified office boy", Rice was writing songs with Lloyd Webber and desperate to find anybody to record one of their songs. Rice and colleagues filled in 5,000 entry forms overnight voting for the contestant who was a singer, and delivered them to McGill, who supervised the competition. Rice said it was "a disgraceful act of dishonesty on my part... without actually breaking the rules". As a result, the ''Standard'' proclaimed two Girls of the Year and Rice's choice, [[Ross Hannaman|Rosalind ("Ross") Hannaman]],<ref>Sondheim and Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical, Stephen Citron, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 114</ref> was signed to EMI, where she made her first record. Rice said at the funeral: "I owe [Angus] an awful lot, which is just one of the reasons why I'm here today."