3 DIVORCED UK-PMs

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This Video 'Short' shows The 3 UK Prime Ministers who have been divorced.
NB: Boris & Marina were married for 27 years (not '17 years', as stated in the video).

1) ANNE LIDDELL (1737–1804) was an English noblewoman and the first wife of AUGUSTUS FITZROY. Grafton divorced her while serving as prime minister. She was a noted correspondent of Horace Walpole. Anne Fitzpatrick was born in Derby to Anne and Henry Liddell. She firstly married FitzRoy on 29 January 1756, at her father's house in St James's Square, by special licence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The marriage was witnessed by Lord Ravensworth and Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford. Together they had 3 children:-
i) Georgiana FitzRoy (1757–99).
ii) George Henry FitzRoy (1760–1844).
iii) Charles FitzRoy (1764–1829).
In 1761 she sent a silhouette that Jean Huber had created of her and her daughter to Horace Walpole. This letter was to be the start of a correspondence of 455 letters between herself and Walpole. After the Duchess had become pregnant by her lover, John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, she and the Duke were divorced by Act of Parliament, passed 23 March 1769. Three months later, on 24 June 1769, the Duke married Elizabeth Wrottesley (1745–1822), daughter of the Reverend Sir Richard Wrottesley, Dean of Worcester. Anne married FitzPatrick in 1769 and they had 2 daughters:-
i) Anne Fitzpatrick.
ii) Gertrude Fitzpatrick.
Anne died at her house in Grosvenor Square in 1804.

2) BEATRICE BECKETT (1905-57) was the first wife of British PM ANTHONY EDEN. She was the third daughter of William Gervase Beckett, Bt. (1866–1937), a banker, Conservative MP, and chairman of the Yorkshire Post, and his wife, Mabel Theresa Duncombe (1877–1913). She was a relation of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick. In 1923, Beckett married Anthony Eden, a Conservative politician, during a lull in his first election campaign. Their honeymoon was cut short after two days so her husband could campaign in Warwick. Soon afterwards, her husband entered Parliament representing Warwick and Leamington. The couple had three sons:-
i) Simon Gascoigne Eden (1924–45).
ii) Robert Eden (1928).
iii) Nicholas Eden (1930–85).
Although her family press connections provided a useful boost to her husband's political career, by the early 1930s their marriage was in trouble due to Beatrice's dislike of politics and Eden's long hours at work. Eden eventually realised that his wife was having affairs with other men, but the two agreed to lead largely separate lives in private. Her separation from Eden increased in 1941, when the family moved to Chichester, Sussex, while Eden lived in a flat in the Foreign Office. The marriage was dealt its "final blow" when the couple's eldest son Simon predeceased his parents after being reported missing in action in Burma in 1945. Beatrice spent the rest of the war in Paris, and in 1946 left Eden to live in the USA. The marriage was dissolved in 1950 after 27 years. The parting was amicable and the former couple remained friends. Two years later, Eden married Clarissa Spencer-Churchill. The Church Times despaired that public approval for the second marriage "shows how far the climate of public opinion has changed for the worse, even since 1936." Beatrice died in 1957 and is buried in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire.

3(i) BORIS JOHNSON's 1st wife ALLEGRA MOSTYN-OWEN was born in London in 1964 to art historian & Christie's Education chairman, William Mostyn-Owen, & Italian writer Gaia Servadio. She was raised by her parents alongside her 2 brothers, Orlando & Owen. During her time as an undergraduate student at Trinity College, Oxford she worked as a journalist & met Johnson. Mostyn-Owen & Johnson married in 1987, before divorcing in 1993. She remarried in 2010.

3(ii) BORIS JOHNSON's 2nd wife MARINA WHEELER (born 1964) is a British lawyer and writer. As a barrister, she specialises in public law, including human rights, and is a member of the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2016. She is the author of The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab (2020). On 8 May 1993, a pregnant Wheeler married her childhood friend Boris Johnson, whose previous marriage had ended 12 days earlier. They had met again & teamed up together in Brussels, where he was covering the European Parliament for The Daily Telegraph. Together they have 4 children, including Lara Lettice, their eldest child born 12 June 1993. In September 2018, Johnson & Wheeler issued a statement confirming that after 25 years of marriage, they had separated "several months ago" & begun divorce proceedings. They reached a financial settlement in February 2020, & the divorce was finalised by November 2020. In August 2019, Wheeler revealed that she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer earlier in the year & had undergone two operations to be in remission.

[MUSIC: My Saddest Song' by Nessles].