[2] His son Uhuru Kenyatta, who he fathered late in life, served as the fourth President of Kenya from 2013–2022.

When it became apparent that Grace was pregnant, his church elders ordered him to get married before a European magistrate, and also undertake the appropriate religious rites.

Peter became an Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Margaret served as Mayor of Nairobi (1970–76) and then as Kenya's Ambassador to the United Nations (1976–86).

[3] He had one son, Peter Magana Kenyatta (born on August 11, 1944), from his short marriage with Edna Clarke.

Mzee was an agricultural labourer in England, earning £4 a week when the two met three years before he returned home to join the nationalist struggle.

Their wedding – recorded in the certificate Dhiri offered the government – took place on May 11, 1942, at the Chanctonbury registry office at Storrington in Sussex.

His niece, Beth Mugo, married to a retired ambassador, was an MP and also served as Minister for Public Health.