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==Personal life== Conquest was married four times, first in 1942 to Joan Watkins, with whom he had two sons. They divorced in 1948.<ref name=Telegraphobit>{{cite news |title=Robert Conquest, historian β obituary |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11782719/Robert-Conquest-historian-obituary.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=4 August 2015 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20150804203217/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11782719/Robert-Conquest-historian-obituary.html |archivedate=4 August 2015}}</ref> There followed a marriage to Tatiana Mihailova (1948β1962),<ref name=Telegraphobit/> whom he had helped escape from Bulgaria.<ref name=NYTobit/> She was diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]] in 1951. In 1962 he married Caroleen MacFarlane; they divorced in 1978.<ref name=Telegraphobit/> That year he began dating Elizabeth Neece Wingate, a lecturer in English and the daughter of a [[United States Air Force]] colonel. He and Wingate married in 1979. When he died in 2015, he had several grandchildren from his sons and stepdaughter.<ref name="NYTobit"/><ref name="Brown">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview23 |title=Scourge and poet |first=Andrew |last=Brown |author-link=Andrew Brown (writer) |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 February 2003 |accessdate=4 August 2015}}</ref>
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