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30 Oct. The Sunday Times.

Headline: Married to the multiculture. Excerpts: I grew up in York, a city which was then almost entirely white … Then in the 1960s came the university bringing overseas students of which the first (literally) was my late wife Olympia, a Goan from Kenya whose arrival in the city, wearing a salwar kameez, merited front-page coverage in the local press.

We met and fell in love and then married in her home town of Nairobi…

We initially faced rejection by Olympia's father whose judgment of suitable boys did not include Englishmen, although feelings soon mellowed … My father’s reaction to Olympia progressed from puzzled politeness to anger once it became apparent that he was to have an Asian daughter-in-law.

When we came home as a married couple his rage and her pride fuelled a row of epic proportions. We did not communicate again for many years. Muc