News by Annette Sharp
Premium Content Years after the first cracks appeared in the marriage of decorated war hero Ben Roberts-Smith and wife Emma, the one-time poster couple for the Australian Army will face off publicly in the Federal Court next month - a turn of events that is likely to embarrass the army s PR unit. Back in February 2000, Private Roberts-Smith and Emma Groom, as the future Mrs Roberts-Smith was then known, appeared prominently on page one of the Sydney Morning Herald, one of two newspapers Roberts-Smith is now suing for defamation. The photo of Ben Roberts-Smith passionately embracing soon-to-be-wife Emma Groom in the Sydney Morning Herald in February 2000.