Jemima Khan reveals she wishes she’d had an arranged marriage
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‘Maybe he would have done me a few favours’: Jemima Khan, who married cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan at the age of just 21, reveals she wishes she had an arranged marriage
- Jemima Khan, 49, said the arranged marriage could have done her “some favours”
- She was looking for “moral certainty” when she married Imran Khan at just 21 years old.
Jemima Khan has revealed how she wishes she had an arranged marriage like the one that lies at the heart of her new rom-com movie.
The screenwriter, 49, said she believed she was seeking “moral certainty” when she married cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan aged just 21.
Her latest film, What’s Love Got To Do With It?, was inspired by her time in Pakistan during her nine-year marriage to Khan and focuses on the parallel worlds of modern dating and arranged marriages.
In a revealing interview in The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, she said: “Part of me thinks that if my parents had been sane and functional and could have agreed, maybe they would have done me some favors by having an arranged marriage.” .
The screenwriter, 49, said she believed she was seeking “moral certainty” when she married cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan aged just 21.
Her father, the late Sir James Goldsmith, coined the infamous phrase: “When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy.”
Jemima was born out of an affair he had with his mother, Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, while they were both still married to others. Their union ended when he ran away with another woman.
Despite their divorce, Jemima is still close to Khan. She and her two children were shocked by an assassination attempt on Pakistan’s former prime minister last year.
While her new film, which stars Shazad Latif, Lily James and Emma Thompson, is about marriage, it’s not something in the cards for Jemima.
“I’m not against it,” he said. However, he describes it as ‘high investment, low return’. . . “Which I think is self-explanatory,” he added.
She and her two children were shocked by an assassination attempt on Pakistan’s former prime minister last year.