Goodall’s son spent early years studying animals alongside herpublished at 19:48 BST
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Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick and Jane Goodall appearing on the ABC special ‘The Wild Dogs of Africa’
In March 1964, Dr Jane Goodall married Dutch National Geographic photographer Hugo van Lawick at a ceremony at the Chelsea Old Church in west London.
The couple had met in Tanzania where Goodall was studying chimpanzees. They were married for a decade and had one child, a son called Hugo Eric Louis.
He was born in 1967 and spent his early years at the Gombe Stream research site in Tanzania, where Goodall studied chimpanzees and while van Lawick documented her work.
Earlier this year, Goodall told Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast the relationship “ended gradually”.
“He had to go on with his career and he got some money to do films on the Serengeti, and I couldn’t leave Gombe,” she said. “I had to stay … I couldn’t leave Gombe, and so it slowly drifted apart. And it was sad.
“I definitely wish we could have carried on with that marriage because it was a good one.”
One year after her divorce from van Lawick, Goodall married Tanzanian parks director Derek Bryceson, who left her widowed in 1980.