Her husband may have been minor as Prime Minister but she is definitely a star. She put up with John Major’s dalliances with Edwina Currie and “kept a low profile” whilst her husband ran the country. Norma Major is thought of as “strong willed” and was rightly made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in her own right.
Two stories to keep beside you
Lady Ridsdale DBE (1921 – 2009, née Victoire Bennett)
Dame Paddy Ridsdale, as she generally known, was an intelligence operative, secretary to Ian Fleming during WW2 and the inspiration for the Bond character Miss Moneypenny. A Conservative Party stalwart and married to Member of Parliament for Harwich from 1954 to 1992 Sir Julian Ridsdale CBE (1915 – 2004), Dame Paddy – or Vicky, […]
Patricia Kluge (née Rose)
The rise and fall of the “wealthiest divorcee in history” has been extraordinary. A former nude model for her first husband’s Knave magazine and star of adult films such as “The Nine Acres of Nakedness,” Patricia Kluge is the daughter of an Englishman and a Scots-Iraqi. She married her second husband, the late John Kluge, […]
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How does she put up with him? He is boring beyond belief.
I am sorry, but for the life of me I cannot understand why being the wife of one of our most useless PM’s entitles you to a DBE.
John Major was much maligned as PM. In reality,he did a very good job in trying circumstance with a tiny minority and he kept the cunt Blair and his minions out for a while. Good piece on him today Times.
I remember meeting him many years ago when he was a PR man at Standard Chartered. If anyone had told me then he would, one day, be Prime Minister of this once great country I would have eaten my hat.
Nice, but quite ineffectual. But nice men are not what was needed was needed. What was needed at the time was a right wing Bob Crowe…..then the working class vote would have come our way.