 Her second husband Terence de Vere White died of Parkinson's disease in 1994 and in 1996 she married Kevin O'Sullivan (a previous husband of Shirley Conran).She had four sons (before she was 28), including sportswriter Matthew Glendinning, with whom she coauthored the book "Sons and Mothers", and the mathematician Paul Glendinning.Another son, Simon Glendinning, lectures in European Philosophy at the London School of Economics having previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury.