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Beloved Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking died in the early hours of March 14, in his Cambridge home.

His funeral, a private event for family, friends and colleagues, will take place today (March 31) at Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge.

The Gonville & Caius fellow was married twice and had three children. Here is a bit more about them.

The Cambridge News is reporting live from Cambridge before, during and after Prof Hawking's, you can follow our updates on our specially dedicated liveblog.

Jane Wilde

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Jane Wilde is Stephen Hawking's first wife and mother to his three children, Robert, Lucy and Timothy.

The sweethearts were married for 30 years before they divorced in 1995.

She met Prof Hawking at a party of a mutual friend in 1962.

Stephen was diagnosed with ALS just a year later, Jane stood by him and the couple got engaged in 1964.

The pair were married in 1965, and Jane went on to gain her own PhD in medieval Spanish poetry in April 1981.

After the pair divorced Jane went on to become an author and later remarried to Jonathan Hellyer Jones.

Robert Hawking - the computer expert

The Mirror reports, the 50-year-old is a software engineer for Microsoft in America and is mentioned in a number of their patents.

As a child he helped to care for his father, with his mother saying: “He had to do things for his father that children really shouldn’t have to do."

He is married with two children and lives in Seattle.

In 2014 he took part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on behalf of his father.

Lucy Hawking - the author

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Lucy, 47, is a journalist turned author and writer for children.

In 2007 she published George's Secret Key to the Universe, an adventure story, written with her father, about a small boy called George who finds a way to slip through a computer generated portal and travel around the solar system.

It has been translated into 38 languages and published in 43 countries.

All of Lucy's children's books and articles centre around the theme of teaching science and education to children.

Lucy is divorced and has one son William, 20, who has been diagnosed with autism.

She studied French and Russian at Oxford University.

Lucy is vice president of the National Star College, an institution dedicated to helping people with disabilities, and is also a trustee of the Autism Research Trust .

Timothy Hawking

The 38-year-old was born in April 1979 by which point his father's motor neurone disease had already effected his voice.

In a rare interview, he said he spent his earliest years unable to understand his father’s deteriorating speech.

He said: "My dad was able to speak with his own, natural voice for those first years, but it was incredibly difficult to understand what he was saying – particularly for me at such a young age."

As a child he would jump into his father’s wheelchair to use it as a go-kart – and programme swear words into the famous voice machine.

A languages graduate from both Birmingham and Exeter universities he worked in marketing for toy giants Lego.

Elaine Mason

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Elaine Mason is Stephen Hawking's second wife.

She worked as Prof Hawking's nurse and caregiver while he was married to Jane.

She was married to David Mason, an engineer who helped to develop Prof Hawking's speech synthesiser, reports The Sun.

Over time the pair grew close and ended up falling in love.

Elaine left David and their two sons after 15 years of marriage.

The pair divorced in 2006 after 11 years together. The reason for their split remains unknown.

Siblings

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Hawking has three siblings.

Two younger sisters, Philippa and Mary and an adopter brother Edward Frank David who sadly died in Bedfordshire in 2003.

Stephen once said during an interview on Radio Times, "My sister Philippa could read by age of four. But then, she was definitely brighter than me."

Both sister's Philippa and Mary decided to boycott the premiere of critically acclaimed film The Theory of Everything because they believe it offers what The Daily Mail reports as a "skewed and at times hurtful insight into what they consider to be private family affairs."

Mary Hawking is now retired from her job at the Kingsbury Court Surgery where she was a doctor for 34 years. She has also received much acclaim for her work regarding IT in health care.

She was awarded the John Perry Prize in 2009.