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Politicians' Families

Wives and Husbands: UK Prime Ministers

Winston Churchill Click to show or hide the answer
Clement Atlee Click to show or hide the answer
Anthony Eden Click to show or hide the answer Click for more information
Harold Macmillan Click to show or hide the answer
Alec Douglas–Home Click to show or hide the answer
Harold Wilson Click to show or hide the answer
Edward Heath Click to show or hide the answer
James Callaghan Click to show or hide the answer
Margaret Thatcher Click to show or hide the answer Click for more information
John Major Click to show or hide the answer
Tony Blair Click to show or hide the answer
Gordon Brown Click to show or hide the answer
David Cameron Click to show or hide the answer
Theresa May Click to show or hide the answer

Boris Johnson

First wife (1987–93) Click to show or hide the answer
Second wife (1993–2020), and the mother of four of his six acknowledged children Click to show or hide the answer
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 Click to show or hide the answer

Boris and Carrie Johnson's first child – born 29 April 2020 Click to show or hide the answer
Boris and Carrie Johnson's second child – born 9 December 2021 Click to show or hide the answer

Wives: US Presidents

George Washington Click to show or hide the answer
Abraham Lincoln Click to show or hide the answer
Franklin D. Roosevelt Click to show or hide the answer
Harry S Truman Click to show or hide the answer
Dwight D. Eisenhower Click to show or hide the answer
John F. Kennedy Click to show or hide the answer
Lyndon B. Johnson Click to show or hide the answer Click for more information
Richard Nixon Click to show or hide the answer
Gerald Ford Click to show or hide the answer
Jimmy Carter Click to show or hide the answer
Ronald Reagan Click to show or hide the answer
George Bush Sr. Click to show or hide the answer
Bill Clinton Click to show or hide the answer
George W. Bush Click to show or hide the answer
Barack Obama Click to show or hide the answer
Donald Trump Click to show or hide the answer Click for more information
Joe Biden Click to show or hide the answer Click for more information

Wives and Husbands: Other

British politician's wife, first cousin four times removed of John Wilkes Booth (assassin of Abraham Lincoln) Click to show or hide the answer
Italian singer and model, married President Nicolas Sarkozy of France in February 2008 (9 months after he took office) Click to show or hide the answer
Father is Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet; mother is Annabel, Viscountess Astor Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Has been married to Jane Chapman (1974–9), Claudia Bracchitta (1987–99) and Laura Álvarez (from 2013) Click to show or hide the answer
Has been married to Irish nurse Gráinne Hayes (1988–97) and German financier Kirsten Mehr (from 1999); he has two children by each Click to show or hide the answer
Married chemistry professor Joachim Sauer in 1998, but kept the surname of her first husband (they divorced in 1982) Click to show or hide the answer
'First Lady of Argentina', from 1946 until her death in 1952Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Married Aurelia Tizón (in 1929), Eva Duarte (1945) and Isabel Martinez Cartas (1961) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
First name of Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Click to show or hide the answer
Married the concert pianist Marion Stein – divorced former wife of the Earl of Harewood – in 1973 (British politician) Click to show or hide the answer

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 Click to show or hide the answer
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 Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Tony Blair's first three children Click to show or hide the answer
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Tony Blair's fourth child – born 2000 – the first born to a serving British prime minister since 1849 Click to show or hide the answer
Gordon Brown's daughter – born prematurely on 28 Dec 2001, died aged 10 days Click to show or hide the answer
Gordon Brown's two sons (born 2003 and 2006; the younger one suffers from cystic fibrosis) Click to show or hide the answer
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 Click to show or hide the answer
David Cameron's second and third children Click to show or hide the answer
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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 Click to show or hide the answer
George Bush's twin daughters (born 25 November 1981) Click to show or hide the answer
Barack Obama's daughters (b. 1998 and 2001) Click to show or hide the answer
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Donald Trump's five children Born 31 December 1977 (mother Ivana) Click to show or hide the answer
Born 30 October 1981 (mother Ivana) Click to show or hide the answer
Born 6 January 1984 (mother Ivana) Click to show or hide the answer
Born 13 October 1993 (mother Marla) Click to show or hide the answer
Born 20 March 2006 (mother Melania) Click to show or hide the answer

Brothers

George W. Bush's younger brother – governor of Florida, 1999–2007 Click to show or hide the answer
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 Click to show or hide the answer

Winston Churchill

Father Click to show or hide the answer
Mother – a US heiress (according to "family lore", she was one–eighth Iroquois) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Wife (married 1908) Click to show or hide the answer

Two of Sir Winston's grandsons became MPs:

MP for Stretford 1970–83, and Davyhulme 1973–97: died in 2010, aged 69 Click to show or hide the answer
MP for Crawley, 1983–97, and Mid Sussex 1997– (son of Sir Winston's daughter Mary) Click to show or hide the answer

Eldest daughter (1909–63): married to Duncan Sandys, 1935–60 Click to show or hide the answer
Only son (1911–68): MP for Preston, 1940–45, and father of Winston Churchill MP Click to show or hide the answer
Second daughter (1914–82): starred opposite Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1951); married to the actor and musical comedian Vic Oliver, 1936–45 Click to show or hide the answer
Third daughter (b. Nov 1918) died Aug 1921, aged 2 Click to show or hide the answer
Youngest daughter (b. 1922): married future government minister Arthur Soames (Lord Soames), 1947 – he died in 1987 Click to show or hide the answer

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