Politicians' Families
Wives and Husbands: UK Prime Ministers
Winston Churchill |
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Clementine |
Clement Atlee |
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Violet |
Anthony Eden |
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Clarissa Spencer–Churchill |
Harold Macmillan |
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Dorothy, Lady Cavendish |
Alec Douglas–Home |
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Elizabeth (once engaged to Brian Johnston) |
Harold Wilson |
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Mary |
Edward Heath |
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(Never married) |
James Callaghan |
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Audrey |
Margaret Thatcher |
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Denis |
John Major |
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Norma |
Tony Blair |
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Cherie |
Gordon Brown |
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Sarah |
David Cameron |
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Samantha |
Theresa May |
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Philip |
Boris Johnson
First wife (1987–93) |
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Allegra Mostyn–Owen |
Second wife (1993–2020), and the mother of four of his six acknowledged children |
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Marina Wheeler QC |
Domestic partner from 2018, fiancée from 2019, third wife from 29 May 2021, and (as of December 2021) the
mother of two of his children |
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Carrie (Symonds) |
Boris and Carrie Johnson's first child – born 29 April 2020 |
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Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas |
Boris and Carrie Johnson's second child – born 9 December 2021 |
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Romy Iris Charlotte |
Wives: US Presidents
George Washington |
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Martha (née Dandridge) |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Mary (née Todd) |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Eleanor (née Roosevelt) |
Harry S Truman |
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Bess |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Mamie |
John F. Kennedy |
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Jackie (née Bouvier) |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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Lady Bird (née Claudia Alta Taylor) |
Richard Nixon |
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Pat |
Gerald Ford |
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Betty (Elizabeth) |
Jimmy Carter |
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(Eleanor) Rosalynn |
Ronald Reagan |
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Nancy |
George Bush Sr. |
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Barbara |
Bill Clinton |
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Hillary |
George W. Bush |
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Laura |
Barack Obama |
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Michelle |
Donald Trump |
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Melania |
Joe Biden |
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Jill |
Wives and Husbands: Other
British politician's wife, first cousin four times removed of John Wilkes Booth (assassin of
Abraham Lincoln) |
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Cherie Blair |
Italian singer and model, married President Nicolas Sarkozy of France in February 2008 (9 months after he took office) |
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Carla Bruni |
Father is Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet; mother is Annabel, Viscountess Astor
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Samantha Cameron |
Has been married to Jane Chapman (1974–9), Claudia Bracchitta (1987–99) and
Laura Álvarez (from 2013) |
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Jeremy Corbyn |
Has been married to Irish nurse Gráinne Hayes (1988–97) and German financier Kirsten Mehr
(from 1999); he has two children by each |
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Nigel Farage |
Married chemistry professor Joachim Sauer in 1998, but kept the surname of her first husband (they
divorced in 1982) |
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Angela Merkel |
'First Lady of Argentina', from 1946 until her death in 1952 |
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Eva Perón |
Married Aurelia Tizón (in 1929), Eva Duarte (1945) and Isabel Martinez Cartas (1961)
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Juan Peron |
First name of Mikhail Gorbachev's wife |
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Raisa |
Married the concert pianist Marion Stein – divorced former wife of the Earl of Harewood – in 1973
(British politician) |
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Jeremy Thorpe |
Children
Theodore Roosevelt's second son: born in 1889, he fought a lifelong battle with depression and
committed suicide by gunshot to the head while serving in the US Army in Alaska during World War II |
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Kermit |
Son–in–law of James Callaghan (married from 1961 to 1986 to his daughter Margaret);
British ambassador to the USA 1977–9 – controversially appointed by Foreign Secretary David Owen
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Peter Jay |
Tony Blair's first three children |
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Euan |
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Nicholas |
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Kathryn |
Tony Blair's fourth child – born 2000 – the first born to a serving British prime
minister since 1849 |
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Leo |
Gordon Brown's daughter – born prematurely on 28 Dec 2001, died aged 10 days |
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Jennifer |
Gordon Brown's two sons (born 2003 and 2006; the younger one suffers from cystic fibrosis) |
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John, James |
David Cameron's first child: born in 2002, suffered from a rare combination of cerebral palsy
and a rare form of epilepsy (Ohtahara syndrome); died in 2009, aged 6 |
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Ivan Reginald Ian |
David Cameron's second and third children |
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Nancy Gwen |
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Arthur Elwen |
David Cameron's second daughter (fourth and third
surviving child) - born in Cornwall while parents were on holiday, August
2010, 3 months after he became PM |
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Florence Rose Endellion |
George Bush's twin daughters (born 25 November 1981) |
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Barbara, Jenna |
Barack Obama's daughters (b. 1998 and 2001) |
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Malia Ann |
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Natasha (Sasha) |
Donald Trump's five children |
Born 31 December 1977 (mother Ivana) |
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Donald Jr. |
Born 30 October 1981 (mother Ivana) |
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Ivanka |
Born 6 January 1984 (mother Ivana) |
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Eric |
Born 13 October 1993 (mother Marla) |
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Tiffany |
Born 20 March 2006 (mother Melania) |
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Barron |
Brothers
George W. Bush's younger brother – governor of Florida, 1999–2007 |
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Jeb (John Ellis) |
Jimmy Carter's colourful, beer–drinking younger brother – carried on the family peanut farming
business; ran unsuccessfully for mayor of their home town of Plains, 1976; received a loan as an agent of the Libyan government, 1979 |
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Billy (William Alton) |
Winston Churchill
Father |
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Lord Randolph Churchill |
Mother – a US heiress (according to "family lore", she was one–eighth Iroquois)
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Jennie (née Jerome) |
Wife (married 1908) |
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Clementine (née Hozier) |
Two of Sir Winston's grandsons became MPs:
MP for Stretford 1970–83, and Davyhulme 1973–97: died in 2010, aged 69 |
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Winston Churchill |
MP for Crawley, 1983–97, and Mid Sussex 1997– (son of Sir Winston's daughter Mary) |
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Sir Nicholas Soames |
Eldest daughter (1909–63): married to Duncan Sandys, 1935–60 |
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Diana |
Only son (1911–68): MP for Preston, 1940–45, and father of Winston Churchill MP |
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Randolph |
Second daughter (1914–82): starred opposite Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1951); married to the actor
and musical comedian Vic Oliver, 1936–45 |
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Sarah |
Third daughter (b. Nov 1918) died Aug 1921, aged 2 |
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Marigold |
Youngest daughter (b. 1922): married future government minister Arthur Soames (Lord Soames), 1947 – he died
in 1987 |
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Mary |
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