Rupert Murdoch has called off his engagement to his prospective fifth wife Ann Lesley Smith, just months before they were due to get married.

The 92-year-old Fox Corporation chairman announced his engagement only last month, when he said that the 66-year-old radio host would be his “last” wife.

She was seen last week wearing an 11-carat diamond engagement ring said to be worth around £2 million, and a summer wedding was planned, but sources have confirmed to The Telegraph that the whirlwind romance is now over.

Vanity Fair magazine claimed that Mr Murdoch had become “increasingly uncomfortable” with his fiancee’s outspoken evangelical views.

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