Editing Jonathan Aitken (section)

==Family==
Aitken's parents were [[William Aitken (MP)|Sir William Traven Aitken]], [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]], a former Conservative MP, and [[The Honourable]] [[Penelope, Lady Aitken]], [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]], [[Justice of the peace|JP]], daughter of [[John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby|The 1st Baron Rugby]].<ref>Stenton and Lees ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament'' vol. iv p. 2</ref><ref name=":1">"Aitken, Jonathan William Patrick", ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online ed., Oxford University Press, 2013; online ed., December 2013</ref> Aitken is a great-nephew of the newspaper magnate and war-time minister, [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|The 1st Baron Beaverbrook]]. His sister is the actress [[Maria Aitken]] and his nephew is the actor [[Jack Davenport]]. He is godfather to James Abbott, the son of [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] left-winger [[Diane Abbott]], who had been his [[Pair (parliamentary convention)|voting pair]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 June 2003 |title=Aitken weds for second time |publisher=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3021388.stm |access-date=2 October 2011}}</ref>

In 1979, Aitken married Serbian Lolica Olivera Azucki, a daughter of O. Azucki, living in [[Zürich]], Switzerland; they divorced in 1998.<ref name=":1" /> With his first wife, he had twin daughters and one son,<ref name=":1" /> Alexandra and Victoria Aitken,<ref name="Ridley" /> and William Aitken respectively.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Edwardes |first=Charlotte |date=12 August 2001 |title=Aitken children in fight to keep share of estate |publisher=Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1337133/Aitken-children-in-fight-to-keep-share-of-estate.html |access-date=2 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 September 2012 |title=Life – The Times |website=[[The Times]] |url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life//?token=null&offset=0&page=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912220356/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life//?token=null&offset=0&page=1 |archive-date=12 September 2012}}</ref>

Aitken married his second wife, The Hon. Elizabeth Harris, daughter of [[David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore|The 1st Baron Ogmore]], [[Territorial Decoration|TD]], [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|PC]], and former wife of actors [[Richard Harris]] and Sir [[Rex Harrison]], in June 2003.<ref name=":1" />

In 1999, [[DNA]] testing confirmed that Petrina Khashoggi, putative daughter of billionaire arms dealer [[Adnan Khashoggi]], was Aitken's biological child, the result of an affair with Khashoggi's wife Soraya (''née'' Sandra Daly).<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Ridley">{{Cite news |last=Ridley |first=Yvonne |date=10 January 1999 |title=Family rallies round Aitken's secret Khashoggi love child |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/jan/10/uk.politicalnews3 |access-date=26 March 2010}}</ref>
The paternity of Aitken himself has similarly been under question. In December 2008, Dutch historian Cees Fasseur said Aitken was the result of a wartime affair between [[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] and Penelope Aitken.<ref name="theweek">{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Aitken is of 'royal blood' |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/40659/jonathan-aitken-%E2%80%98royal-blood%E2%80%99 |access-date=21 November 2014 |website=theweek.co.uk |publisher=[[Michael Wolfe]] |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043848/http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/40659/jonathan-aitken-%E2%80%98royal-blood%E2%80%99 |url-status=dead }}</ref>