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==Personal life== Tebbit currently lives in [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[Suffolk]]. He is an [[agnostic]]. He remarked tongue-in-cheek in a March 2011 interview, when asked whether he thinks God exists, "I'm not sure. He ought to. Things would work better."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8422956/Lord-Tebbit-why-I-admire-Clegg-more-than-Cameron.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | author=Bryony Gordon | title=Lord Tebbit: why I admire Clegg more than Cameron | date=1 April 2011| author-link=Bryony Gordon }}</ref> He has two sons and a daughter.<ref name="Whoswho">{{cite book|title=Who's Who 2013}}</ref> He has been described as a 'keen amateur chef', and has published a book on cooking game.<ref>{{Cite book |isbn = 9781906779115|title = The Game Cookbook|last1 = Tebbit|first1 = Norman|year = 2009| publisher=JR Books Limited }}</ref> In December 2013, Tebbit suffered from a cardiac incident, praising the NHS for their quick and decisive action.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100251594/the-nhs-can-be-an-elite-force-as-i-know-when-it-goes-wrong-blame-the-generals-not-the-troops/#disqus_thread | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223091212/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100251594/the-nhs-can-be-an-elite-force-as-i-know-when-it-goes-wrong-blame-the-generals-not-the-troops/#disqus_thread | url-status=dead | archive-date=23 December 2013 | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=The NHS can be an elite force, as I know. When it goes wrong, blame the generals, not the troops | date=20 December 2013}}</ref> In a May 2014 interview, he talked about discovering he had been suffering from a form of cardiac [[arrhythmia]] for more than 40 years: "The suspicion I had a heart problem caused me to puzzle over earlier incidents in my life," he said, reflecting on his [[RAF]] jet fighter crash in 1954. "I suspect that, that morning, stressed from the previous day and having had little sleep, I lost consciousness on that take-off run."<ref name="FlyPast"/> Tebbit's wife, Lady Tebbit, died at home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 19 December 2020 at the age of 86 after having suffered from depression and [[dementia with Lewy bodies]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/21/dont-completely-forget-forgive-one-has-completely-look-forward/|title=Lady Margaret Tebbit, wife of Lord Tebbit, and survivor of IRA bomb attack has died aged 86|date=21 December 2020|access-date=21 December 2020|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>
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