Personal Life
Penrose met the Hon. Dido (Diana) Harding, only daughter of Lord Harding, while both worked at McKinsey. The couple married in October 1995, and have two daughters. John splits his time between his home in the Weston-super-Mare constituency (Somerset), and a flat in London on the evenings when Parliament is sitting late. Harding is the current Chief Executive of TalkTalk Group, and owns the 1998 Cheltenham Gold Cup winning horse, Cool Dawn.
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