{"id":289685,"date":"2026-01-17T19:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289685\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T19:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:10:19","slug":"the-flower-bearers-by-rachel-eliza-griffiths-salman-rushdies-wife-shines-a-light-on-the-tragic-start-to-their-married-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289685\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Salman Rushdie\u2019s wife shines a light on the tragic start to their married life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths is accepting of being in the shadows of her world-renowned husband, but this earnest account only gives snatched glimpses of their life together \u2013 and is more of a love letter to her late best friend\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Salman Rushdie and his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths at Cliveden Literary Festival in Windsor, England in 2024. Photo: David Levenson\/Getty \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9b7d3d6e-a29c-4968-aded-1c93647f1c86.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Salman Rushdie and his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths at Cliveden Literary Festival in Windsor, England in 2024. Photo: David Levenson\/Getty <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rachel Eliza Griffiths has published five collections of poetry and one novel, and is a noted visual artist to boot. She is probably best known now, however, as the wife of Salman Rushdie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That might rankle with some women, but Griffiths, whilst \u201craised not to lose myself in the stories of others, especially men\u201d, is wise enough to understand that being overshadowed by such a formidable figure is inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths is accepting of being in the shadows of her world-renowned husband, but this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[33200,18,117,19,17,2519,41159],"class_list":{"0":"post-289685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eilis-ohanlon","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-review-magazine","14":"tag-salman-rushdie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115912024104169055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}