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Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget (born 3 January 1944) is an Australian writer and the second wife of Bob Hawke, the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister of Australia .
Blanche d’Alpuget is an award-winning Australian writer of French and English heritage. Her latest work is a quintet of novels set in 12th C France and England, illuminating the lives of Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine who, before becoming his wife, was Queen of France.
Blanche d'Alpuget is an award-winning Australian writer of French and English heritage. She has written a quintet of novels set in 12th C France and England, featuring Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine and their children.
Feb 2, 2023 · Bob Hawke spent 24 years married to his second wife, Blanche d'Alpuget, whose canny 1981 biography helped make him ALP leader – and one of our most beloved PMs. Chris Wallace tells their story.
Blanche d’Alpuget met Bob Hawke at a party in 1970 when she was just 26 years old. She was the cosseted wife of Australian diplomat Tony Pratt, living in Jakarta with five servants and a chauffeur.
In a wide-ranging interview with Michael Usher on The Latest on Thursday night, d’Alpuget, 77, spoke of life without Bob, and the double blow of grieving her husband and battling breast cancer. 2020 was d’Alpuget’s annus horribilis, as she underwent rounds of chemotherapy treatment and surgery.
Jun 20, 2019 · Blanche d'Alpuget on a life in books after Bob Hawke. The author of Winter in Jerusalem, and widow of Bob Hawke, on spiritual awakenings, digesting the Bible and her latest installment in the...
