CARTOON BY BRIAN DOYLE
The pending divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates may not be surprising to those who are close to them. But to those of us who know the famous couple only as an incredibly successful business and philanthropic team it is a bombshell.
The breakup of a marriage is always a tragedy, and even more so when it comes after many years of shared life – in this case 27 years of marriage and the raising of three children, who are still adolescents. A London
Telegraph writer observed gloomily: “If their marriage is, as they claim in court documents, ‘irretrievably broken’, then it feels like we’re all doomed.”