Marina Claire Wheeler QC (born 18 August 1964) is a British lawyer, author, columnist, and the ex-wife of British prime minister Boris Johnson. As a barrister, she specialises in public law, including human rights, and is a member of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2016. Marina Claire Wheeler was born to BBC correspondent Sir Charles Wheeler and his second wife, Dip Singh, an Indian Punjabi Sikh; her ancestry goes back to the city of Sargodha in West Punjab, present-day Pakistan, with her maternal family migrating to present-day India after the Partition of India. She was educated at the European School of Brussels, and then in the early 1980s at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where she wrote for the student magazine Cantab. At the European School, she became friendly with Boris Johnson, later a journalist and politician. Her sister, Shirin Wheeler, is an EU spokeswoman.