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Icke met his first wife, Linda Atherton, in May 1971 at a dance at the Chesford Grange Hotel near [[Leamington Spa]], Warwickshire. They married on 30 September 1971, four months after they met.{{sfn |Icke |1993 |p=61}} Their daughter Kerry was born in March 1975;{{sfn |Icke |1993 |pp=82, 96, 253–254}} Kerry died in December 2023.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gleadow |first1=Ewan |title=Conspiracist David Icke promises to meet daughter 'in another realm' after tragic death |url=https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/conspiracist-david-icke-promises-meet-31651071 |access-date=12 December 2023 |work=[[Daily Star (United Kingdom)|Daily Star]] |date=11 December 2023}}</ref> Their first son, Gareth, was born in December 1981,<ref>{{cite web |title=Gareth Icke |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/9rFf5ZD055NJsbAVesHy5GDCcCU/appointments |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref>{{sfn |Icke |1993 |pp=96, 253–254}} followed by their second son, Jaymie, in November 1992.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jaymie Alexander Icke |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Tjl-MCbIE3r7kfW-jTGn2A1_TfE/appointments |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref>{{sfn |Icke |1993 |pp=82, 96, 253–254}}
In March 1991 English-Canadian psychic Deborah Shaw began living with the couple in a short-lived arrangement.<ref name="Taylor1997">{{Cite news |first=Sam |last=Taylor |title=So I was in this bar with the son of God... |work=The Observer |date=20 April 1997}}</ref>{{sfn |Robertson |2016 |p=130}} The relationship with Shaw led to the birth of a daughter in December 1991, although Shaw and Icke had by then ceased their relationship. Icke wrote in 1993 that at Shaw's request he decided not to visit
Icke and Atherton divorced in 2001 but remained friends, and Atherton continued to work as Icke's business manager.{{sfn |Robertson |2016 |pp=139–140, 147}}
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