Julian Assange's wife Stella: ‘I tell our sons I’ll save daddy - he's facing 175 years’
ok.co.ukIt’s a tale as old as time – and yet stranger than fiction. A young woman meets the love of her life in unexpected circumstances.
Forced apart, they face battle after battle, defying adversity in order to be reunited. Except in this story, a happy ending isn’t guaranteed.
Stella Assange, wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian, is measured and quiet, thinking hard before she speaks. Her pauses between questions are pregnant with a careful weighing of words.
She comes alive, though, when she talks about her husband, who is imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh, and about their two sons. "Gabriel is six and Max is four," she beams, a selection of the boys’ colourful artwork displayed on the kitchen wall behind her. "Gabriel is very like his dad around the eyes and Max is big for his age, just like Julian was when he was small." It could be a simple insight into any happy family – but this particular unit is unique.
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