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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. Ex-wife of the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau (born 1948) Margaret Trudeau Trudeau in 2014 Born Margaret Joan Sinclair (1948-09-10) September 10, 1948 (age 76) West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Nationality Canadian Known for Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada ...
Pierre Trudeau began his term as a bachelor, became the first Canadian prime minister to get married while in office and ended it as Canada's first divorced prime minister. Three other Canadian prime ministers– Alexander Mackenzie , John Diefenbaker , and John A. Macdonald —were widowers who remarried before becoming prime minister.
Pierre Trudeau was born at home in Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, on October 18, 1919, [7] to Charles-Émile "Charley" Trudeau (1887–1935), a French-Canadian businessman and lawyer, and Grace Elliott, who was of mixed Scottish and French-Canadian descent.
For Trudeau there are also painful historical parallels. His father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, separated from his wife, Margaret, in 1977, when he was in office.
Sophie Trudeau and her husband in Hamburg, 2017. Grégoire first met Justin Trudeau, the eldest son of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when they were both growing up in Montreal, where Grégoire was a classmate and childhood friend of the youngest Trudeau son, Michel. [8]
His father, Pierre Trudeau, and mother, Margaret Trudeau, separated in 1977 and divorced in 1984 during the elder Trudeau's final year in the prime minister's office.
The oldest of Trudeau and Grégoire Trudeau's kids is Xavier, 15. Coincidentally, he was born the same day as Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, who also served as the Canadian prime minister.
A constant stream of people, some waiting as long as seven hours, passed Trudeau's casket as it lay in the Hall of Honour. Many also brought roses—a Trudeau signature—to place around the Centennial Flame at the foot of Centre Block. About 60,000 people passed Trudeau's casket while it lay in state. Trudeau's ex-wife, Margaret, was one.