Editing Richard Curtis (section)

==Personal life==
Curtis lives in [[Notting Hill]] and has a country house in [[Walberswick]], Suffolk<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thorpe |first=Vanessa |date=27 March 2005 |title=The producer |url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,,1446417,00.html |access-date=8 October 2007 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=UK}}</ref> with broadcaster [[Emma Freud]] whom he married in September 2023. They have four children, including writer and activist [[Scarlett Curtis|Scarlett]].<ref name="married">{{Cite web |title=TV & Radio Presenter Emma Freud |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/london/communicate/emma_freud.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060604025152/http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/communicate/emma_freud.shtml |archive-date=4 June 2006 |access-date=20 January 2013 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> He had previously dated [[Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington|Anne Strutt]], now Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, before her marriage to Sir [[Bernard Jenkin]], a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Born |first=Matt |date=13 November 2003 |title=Why Tory MP is the father of all Bernards |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1446547/Why-Tory-MP-is-the-father-of-all-Bernards.html |access-date=3 December 2019 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Curtis has named characters in his writing Bernard (reputedly after Bernard Jenkin). It is claimed he used the Jenkins' wedding as inspiration for ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 July 2015 |title=Londoner's Diary: Bernard Jenkin bites at old rival Richard Curtis |url=http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-bernard-jenkin-bites-back-at-his-old-love-rival-richard-curtis-10427480.html |access-date=3 December 2019 |website=[[Evening Standard]] |language=en}}</ref> He is [[Irreligion|irreligious]].<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Curtis |first=Richard |interviewer=[[Laurie Taylor (sociologist)|Laurie Taylor]] |title=Charity Balls: Laurie Taylor Interviews Richard Curtis |url=http://newhumanist.org.uk/1407 |access-date=13 December 2022 |work=[[New Humanist]] |date=29 June 2007}}</ref>