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Spouses of the British Prime Minister



Maiden Name Before Marriage - Prime Minister


  1. Akshata Murty - Rishi Sunak
  2. Hugh O'Leary - Liz Truss
  3. Carrie Symonds - Boris Johnson
  4. Philip May - Theresa May






  5. Samantha Sheffield - David Cameron
  6. Sarah Macaulay - Gordon Brown
  7. Cherie Booth - Cherie Blair
  8. Norma Wagstaff - John Major
  9. Dennis Thatcher - Margaret Thatcher
  10. Audrey Moulton - James Callaghan
  11. Mary Baldwin - Harold Wilson
  12. Clementine Hozier - Sir Winston Churchill
  13. Mary Anne Evans - Benjamin Disraeli
  14. Catherine Pakenham - Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley)
  15. Catherine Shorter ( first wife of the first British prime minister) - Robert Walpole

Footnotes: The last bachelor was Edward Heath (1970–1974).
The last widower was Ramsay MacDonald (1924, 1929–1935).
Boris Johnson and the Duke of Grafton are the only PMs to have divorced and remarried while in office.