A baby on the way for Monty Python 星／主役にする Terry Jones and lover who's 41 years younger

By Richard Price for the Daily Mail
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Strolling in the 日光 with a young 妊娠している woman, Terry Jones looks for all the world like the proud grandfather-to-be.

Yet the brunette pictured by the Monty Python 退役軍人's 味方する, her 手渡すs 残り／休憩（する）ing serenely on an unmistakable baby bump, is not Jones's daughter but his 26-year-old lover.

裁判官ing by her 幅の広い smile and what appears to be a handful of half-finished knitting, it seems that 差し迫った motherhood agrees with Swedish Oxford University 卒業生（する） Anna Soderstrom.

Terry Jones

New love: Monty Python 星／主役にする Terry Jones with his 妊娠している 26-year-old lover Anna Soderstrom spotted out in Essex last week

And if 67-year-old Jones is 関心d by their 41-year-age gap - and the fact that by the time his child is born he will be not far off 70 - he is not showing it.

行方不明になる Soderstrom is 井戸／弁護士席 into the second trimester of her pregnancy, having sailed through the 基準 12-week ざっと目を通す and check-up.

Her family appear to have mixed feelings about the baby. Her stepmother Ulrika in Stockholm said: 'It is a little bit 複雑にするd, but her father is away at the moment so I cannot say any more. Everything is 罰金... really.'

Not 正確に／まさに a glowing 裏書，是認. But certainly more 肯定的な than the shocked reaction of Jones's estranged wife, Alison, a biochemist at 皇室の College, London.

Terry Jones

荒廃させるd: Jones's estranged wife Alison is said to be shocked by the news

Friends say she was just beginning to 回復する from the 荒廃 of splitting from her husband of 35 years when Anna's pregnancy 'brought all the old feelings of 傷つける flooding 支援する'.

Jones was kicked out of the family home in South London in the autumn of 2004, when he 認める becoming 大（公）使館員d to Anna, whom he had met at a 調書をとる／予約する 調印 in Oxford. Now his wife, daughter Sally, 35, and son 法案, 32, have to 直面する the emotional fallout of his 活動／戦闘s all over again.

A friend of Anna from Oxford, where she read languages before 卒業生（する）ing in the summer of 2006, said: 'I would 述べる her as blissfully unconcerned about what anybody else might think.

She's always been like this.' The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the Jones family's old friends, who are 深く，強烈に alarmed by the prospect of 差し迫った fatherhood at such a late 行う／開催する／段階 in his life.

Terry Jones

退役軍人: Jones featured in the famous Monty Python Spam sketch

Three years ago he was 診断するd with bowel can cer and underwent an 操作／手術, and since then he has been trying to 可決する・採択する a healthier lifestyle, having noticeably lost over a 石／投石する in 負わせる recently.

The prospect of introducing a newborn into the couple's sprawling home in North London, a 石／投石する's throw from Hampstead ヒース／荒れ地, is another 事柄 完全に.

'He doesn't seem fazed by it, but everyone else is,' said a family friend who has been の近くに to both Jones and his wife for １０年間s.

'If anything, I think it's a classic 事例／患者 of male pride taking over. Getting a young filly 妊娠している 証明するs there's life in the old dog yet.

'Alison and the kids are a different proposition. For them it's 破滅的な and humiliating. They'll never speak out about it because they've got far too much dignity for that.

'一方／合間 Terry swans around with Anna on his arm looking like some ageing lothario.'

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