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years after the death of his beloved novelist wife Margaret Forster, Hunter Davies has a new girlfriend: Claire Thornton. ‘i didn’t want to go online to a dating agency,’ says Beatles biographer Davies, 82. ‘i didn’t want to meet a stranger. lots of people wrote to me after Margaret died saying how sorry they were. ‘and one of them was someone i used to work with 30 years ago. ‘she’s in the media. she’s aged 70 — a young woman.’