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Did a little dig on Steele's wife. He is a widower and remarried.
His first wife was born Laura Hunt, daughter of a British Russian speaking nuclear physicist David Hunt. David Hunt once had the honor of meeting Queen Elisabeth due to his design of a laser for Britain’s Atomic Weapon Establishment.
Laura and Christopher Steele met on a double date in 1988. The other daters were a man named Neil who worked at the time with Steele at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and woman named Sue who was Laura's then boss at the accountacy firm Peat Marwick McLintock. Laura noted the event in her diary as, “Lunch at 12.30 with Sue, Neil and Chris Whatsit.”
The couple were married in July 1990. Mr Steele, already working for MI6 after being recruited from Cambridge University, was posted to Moscow months later, where the couple faced “constant harassment” from the KGB, which even included the theft of Mrs Steele’s favourite pair of shoes from their flat.
In Russia, Steele, Officially listed as Second Secretary (Chancery) in the British Embassy, he worked closely with Sir Tim Barrow, the new ambassador to the EU, and Alex Younger, now head of MI6.
The couple returned to London in 1993 and had two sons, Matthew and Henry, before a posting to Paris in 1998, where their daughter Georgina was later born.
At first, they lived in a flat owned by the pop singer Annie Lennox on Rue Bonaparte before moving to a village outside the capital, but the first signs of Mrs Steele’s illness surfaced and they returned to the UK in 2002.
Mr Steele was sent to Bagram air base in Afghanistan as part of an MI6 team briefing Special Forces on “kill or capture” missions for Taliban targets, and also spent time teaching new MI6 recruits.
His expertise on Russia remained valued, and he was selected as case officer for the FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko, whose state-sponsored assassination in 2006 affected him deeply.
After leaving MI6 (does anyone ever really leave MI6?), Steele founded his private investigations company, Orbis Business Intelligence, in March 2009, opening a new life of riches for him and his family.
But just six months later, his wife Laura died of cirrhosis of the liver, leaving him heartbroken and having to bring up their three children alone.
When he left the Secret Intelligence Service to set up his firm, it quickly prospered (accounts show profits of more than £1m in the last two years) thanks partly to a commission from the Football Association to investigate corruption at football’s world governing body FIFA.
The FBI is reported to have consulted him before it arranged the arrest of several officials, leading to the resignation of the then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
And as for his new wife Katherine. She's a Ghost.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/christopher-steelethe-former-british-spy-created-donald-trump/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4113342/Extraordinary-life-dirty-dossier-British-spook-late-wife-high-heels-stolen-KGB-Russian-tank-aimed-flat-Moscow.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2601069/familys-fears-for-runaway-brit-spy-chris-steele-at-centre-of-trump-sex-dossier-scandal/