Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (born September 10, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
The daughter of Kathleen Bernard and James Sinclair, a former Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Margaret attended Simon Fraser University where she studied English literature.
As an 18-year-old vacationing in Tahiti, s...
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Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (born September 10, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
The daughter of Kathleen Bernard and James Sinclair, a former Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Margaret attended Simon Fraser University where she studied English literature.
As an 18-year-old vacationing in Tahiti, she met Pierre Trudeau, who was then Minister of Justice. Ms. Sinclair did not recognize him, and she in fact thought little of their encounter, but Trudeau was captivated by the carefree "flower child," thirty years younger than himself, and began to pursue her. As Trudeau was a Catholic, she converted to Roman Catholicism for their marriage.
Trudeau was still a bachelor when elected prime minister in 1968. After keeping their romance private, the Prime Minister astonished the country by marrying the 22-year-old Sinclair on March 4, 1971, in a...
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