Anne Whateley Anne Whateley Anne Whateley is the name given to a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of William Shakespeare before he married Anne Hathaway. Most scholars believe that Whateley never existed, and that her name in a document concerning Shakespeare's marriage is merely a clerical error. However, several writers on Shakespeare have taken the view that she was a real rival to Hathaway for Shakespeare's hand. She has also appeared in imaginative literature on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare authorship speculations. Shakespeare's biographer Russell A. Fraser describes her as "a ghost", "haunting the edges of Shakespeare's
Oona A. Hathaway for Social and Policy Studies and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. They have two children. Oona A. Hathaway Oona Anne Hathaway (born 1972) is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and both founder and director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School. She is also a Professor of International and Area Studies at The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Faculty at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; and Professor (by courtesy) at the Department of Political Science. Hathaway was born and