Max Mosley, former racing driver, barrister, racing car manufacturer and motor sport world governing body president, lived an extraordinary life.
Mosley, who has died from cancer aged 81, was a political giant in the world of motor sport and a hugely successful, lifelong campaigner for the safety of its cars, but that is unlikely to be what he is best remembered for.
He will be remembered instead by mainstream Britain as the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the 1930s British fascist party, and as the motor sport figurehead whose sadomasochistic sexual tendencies were splashed on the front pages of a tabloid newspaper in 2008.
Mosley married wife Jean, the daughter of a London policeman, at Chelsea Registry Office in June 1960 and their sons Alexander and Patrick were born in 1970 and 1972.
In the News of the World court case in 2008, Mosley said his wife had never known anything about his interest in sadomasochism.
Mosley’s son Alexander died aged 39 in 2009, with the coroner ruling his death was due to non-dependent drug abuse.
