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=== Post-war === Upon Fleming's [[Demobilisation of the British Armed Forces after the Second World War|demobilisation]] in May 1945, he became the foreign manager in the [[Kemsley Newspapers|Kemsley newspaper group]], which at the time owned ''[[The Sunday Times]]''. In this role he oversaw the paper's worldwide network of correspondents. His contract allowed him to take three months' holiday every winter, which he took in Jamaica.<ref name="Lycett (DNB)" /> Fleming worked full-time for the paper until December 1959,{{sfn|Lycett|1996|pp=360β361}} but continued to write articles and attend the Tuesday weekly meetings until at least 1961.{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=384}}{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=394}} After Anne Charteris's first husband died in the war, she expected to marry Fleming, but he decided to remain a bachelor.<ref name="Lycett (DNB)" /> On 28 June 1945, she married the [[Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere|second Viscount Rothermere]].<ref name="Lycett (Ann DNB)" /> Nevertheless, Charteris continued her affair with Fleming, travelling to Jamaica to see him under the pretext of visiting his friend and neighbour [[NoΓ«l Coward]]. In 1948 she gave birth to Fleming's daughter, Mary, who was [[Stillbirth|stillborn]]. Rothermere divorced Charteris in 1951 because of her relationship with Fleming,<ref name="Lycett (Ann DNB)" /> and the couple married on 24 March 1952 in Jamaica,{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=217}} a few months before their son Caspar was born in August. Both Fleming and Ann had affairs during their marriage, she with [[Hugh Gaitskell]], the [[Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Leader of the Labour Party]] and [[Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)|Leader of the Opposition]].{{sfn|Lycett|1996|p=295}} Fleming had a long-term affair in Jamaica with one of his neighbours, [[Blanche Blackwell]], the mother of [[Chris Blackwell]] of [[Island Records]].{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=113}} Fleming was also friends with British Prime Minister [[Anthony Eden]] whom he allowed to stay at Goldeneye in late November 1953 due to Eden's deteriorating health.<ref>{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Doran |title=Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East |isbn=978-1-4516-9775-9 |year=2016 |page=202 |publisher=Simon and Schuster}}</ref>
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