Harry Benson

After serving eight years in the Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot - initially on 845/847 naval air commando squadrons flying a Wessex 5, then as flight commander of the frigate HMS Apollo flying a Wasp - Harry spent the next nine years in Asia in the completely different world of stockbroking. Surviving a marital crisis, he and his family moved back to England to help other couples avoid getting into the same mess they did! Armed with a first class degree in psychology, Harry set up a charity in Bristol and ran relationship programmes for thousands of couples, parents and individuals. He also co-wrote some influential policy papers for the Centre for Social Justice. He now works as research director for the charity Marriage Foundation - whose aim is to rebuild confidence in marriage - and appears regularly in the national media, very occasionally on the front page!