Hitchens was married twice, first to Eleni Meleagrou,[REF] a Greek Cypriot, in a Greek Orthodox church[REF] in 1981; the couple had a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Sophia.
Hitchens's mother, Yvonne, died in Athens in 1973 when, despite first reports in The Times that she had been murdered, it was later concluded that her death had been the result of an apparent suicide pact with her boyfriend, Reverend Timothy Bryan.