Editing Denis Healey (section)

== Personal life and death ==
Healey married [[Edna Healey|Edna May Edmunds]] on 21 December 1945, the two having met at Oxford University before the war. The couple had three children, one of whom is the broadcaster and writer Tim Healey.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/6636029.Water_way_to_splash_out_for_charity/?ref=arc|title=Water way to splash out for charity|work=[[Oxford Mail]]|date=17 May 1999|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://www.bejo.co.uk/bejo/html/alblads.htm "Come on Lads: Canteen songs of World War Two"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003234131/http://www.bejo.co.uk/bejo/html/alblads.htm |date=3 October 2015 }}, Beautiful Jo Records website . Retrieved 13 September 2008.</ref> Edna Healey died on 21 July 2010, aged 92.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10737970|title=Denis Healey's wife, Edna, dies aged 92|date=23 July 2010|work=BBC News Online|publisher=BBC|access-date=23 July 2010}}</ref> They were married for almost 65 years and lived in [[Alfriston]], East Sussex.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6507607.stm "Denis Healey at 90"], BBC News.</ref> In 1987, Edna underwent an operation at a [[private hospital]] – this event drawing media attention as being seemingly at odds with Healey's pro-[[NHS]] beliefs. Challenged on the apparent inconsistency by the presenter [[Anne Diamond]] on [[TV-am]], Healey refused to comment and ended the interview.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/background/pastelec/ge87.shtml|title=BBC Politics 97|work=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> He then hit journalist [[Adam Boulton]] with a [[jab]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/adam-boulton-skys-political-editor-on-the-channels-relaunch-359748.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Adam Boulton: Sky's political editor on the channel's relaunch | date=24 April 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/adam-boulton-just-dont-tell-him-what-he-thinks-1973987.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Ian | last=Burrell | title=Adam Boulton: Just don't tell him what he thinks | date=15 May 2010}}</ref>

Healey was an amateur photographer for many years;<ref>[http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/arts/photography.html Open2.net – Denis Healey & Photography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205143648/http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/arts/photography.html |date=5 December 2008 }}</ref> he also enjoyed music, painting and reading crime fiction. He sometimes played popular piano pieces at public events.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10460432|title=Denis Healey playing the piano at Huddersfield Town Hall|date=May 1987|access-date=28 April 2009|work=Science and Society|publisher=[[National Museum of Science and Industry]]}}</ref> In a May 2012 interview for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', Healey reported that he was swimming 20 lengths a day in his outdoor pool.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/9246358/Lord-Denis-Healey-youre-so-naughty.html Interview], [[Bryony Gordon]], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' (London), 8 May 2012, Accessed same day.</ref> Healey was interviewed in 2012 as part of [[The History of Parliament]]'s oral history project.<ref name='HoPHealey'>{{cite web|title=Oral history: HEALEY, Denis Winston (1917–2015)|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/oral-history/member/healey-denis-winston-1917-2015|publisher=[[The History of Parliament]]|access-date=14 July 2016}}</ref><ref name='BLHealey'>{{cite web|title=Lord Denis Healey interviewed by Mike Greenwood|url=http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=FWlk6P2fek/WORKS-FILE/227160020/9|publisher=[[British Library Sound Archive]]|access-date=14 July 2016|archive-date=5 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305033253/http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=FWlk6P2fek/WORKS-FILE/227160020/9|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After a short illness, Healey died in his sleep at his home in [[Alfriston]], [[Sussex]], on 3 October 2015, aged 98. He was buried alongside his wife in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church, Alfriston.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34434378|title=Labour's Denis Healey dies at 98|work=BBC News|access-date=3 October 2015|date=2015-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11909599/Denis-Healey-dies-aged-98.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11909599/Denis-Healey-dies-aged-98.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Denis Healey Dies Aged 98|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=4 October 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2017, his personal archives were deposited at the [[Bodleian Library]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/15437473.Archive_of_Labour_politician_Denis_Healey_is_deposited_at_the_Bodleian/|title=Archive of Labour politician Denis Healey is deposited at the Bodleian|last=Ffrench|first=Andy|date=28 July 2017|website=The Oxford Times|language=en|access-date=2017-08-01}}</ref>