Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom spouses of former prime ministers: Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the wife or husband of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To date, there have been forty-four women and two men who have been married to British prime ministers in office. There have also been four bachelor and nine widower prime ministers; the last bachelor was Edward Heath (1970–1974) and the last widower was Ramsay MacDonald (1924, 1929–1935). The Duke of Grafton (1766–1768) is the only Prime Minister to have divorced and remarried while
Not Private Eye Not Private Eye Not Private Eye was a one-off spoof of the British satirical magazine "Private Eye". The spoof of "Private Eye" was published in December 1986 by Robert Maxwell, to celebrate his £55,000 libel victory over "Private Eye" caused by an accusation of attempted cash for peerages. It was printed using the facilities of the "Daily Mirror", of which Maxwell was the owner. "Private Eye", meanwhile, was trying to sell a Christmas edition (at £1 rather than the then-usual 45p) in order to cover the costs of the libel case, estimated at £255,000. W H Smith was refusing to