Personal Life
Miliband is married to Justine Thornton, a Cambridge-educated barrister. The pair met in 2002 and lived together in North London, before becoming engaged in March 2010. They have two sons, born 2009 and 2010. Miliband is Jewish, though not religious. After marrying Thornton in a civil ceremony on 27 May 2011, he paid tribute to his Jewish heritage by following the tradition of breaking a glass. In 2012, Miliband wrote, "Like many others from Holocaust families, I have a paradoxical relationship with this history. On one level I feel intimately connected with it – this happened to my parents and grandparents. On another, it feels like a totally different world."
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