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==Personal life== In 1950, Attenborough married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel. The couple had two children, Robert and Susan. Jane died in 1997.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rushin |first1=Tess |title=What you need to know about Sir David Attenborough |url=https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/who-is-sir-david-attenborough-1345596 |work=LeicestershireLive |date=16 April 2018 |access-date=22 August 2021 |archive-date=22 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822064644/https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/who-is-sir-david-attenborough-1345596 |url-status=live}}</ref> Robert was a senior lecturer in [[Biological anthropology|bioanthropology]] for the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the [[Australian National University]] in [[Canberra]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Canberra has marvellous facilities |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-has-marvellous-facilities-20130525-2n47w.html |access-date=9 July 2016 |work=The Canberra Times |date=26 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911092633/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-has-marvellous-facilities-20130525-2n47w.html |archive-date=11 September 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> Susan is a former primary school headmistress.<ref name="Telegraph" /> Attenborough had a [[Artificial cardiac pacemaker|pacemaker]] fitted in June 2013, as well as a double [[knee replacement]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Claire |date=6 November 2016 |title=Sir David Attenborough reveals he's got a 'new lease of life' at 90 |url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sir-dave-attenborough-reveals-pacemaker-9194114 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108173203/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sir-david-attenborough-lease-life-9194114 |archive-date=8 November 2016 |access-date=14 April 2020 |website=The Mirror |language=en}}</ref> In September 2013, he commented: "If I was earning my money by hewing coal I would be very glad indeed to stop. But I'm not. I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Meikle|first1=James|date=10 September 2013|title=Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|publisher=The Guardian news group|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/10/david-attenborough-human-evolution-stopped|url-status=live|access-date=11 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211131905/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/10/david-attenborough-human-evolution-stopped|archive-date=11 February 2017}}</ref>
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