Novelist Sir Salman Rushdie is to become a grandfather, after his daughter-in-law Natalie Rushdie revealed she is pregnant.
Jazz singer Natalie, 33, is expecting a daughter in October with husband Zafar, son of the Booker Prize-winning author. The pair married in New York in June 2016 and this will be their first child together.
Speaking to Hello! magazine, she said of the author: "He's really over the moon and couldn't be happier for us. And so are we.
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