Complex sentence: Bates married Carole (née Whitfield) in 1983; the couple had two sons, Matthew (born 1987) and Alex (born 1990), but divorced in 2008.
Split into simpler sentences: Bates married Carole (née Whitfield) in 1983. The couple have two sons, Matthew (born 1987) and Alex (born 1990), and divorced in 2008.