Personal Life
Faulkner married Lucy Forsythe, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1951. They met through their common interests in politics and hunting. She was equally suited to a political partnership having had a career in journalism with the Belfast Telegraph and was secretary to the Northern Ireland Prime Minister, Lord Brookeborough, when they met. Together they had three children: a daughter and two sons. They took up residence in Highlands Estate, not far from the village of Seaforde. Faulkner surrounded the children with a heavy security presence (including Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers) and took no risks with his own life; the house being designed that every room led to another, with panic buttons laid throughout. One of his sons, Michael, has published a biographical book, "The Blue Cabin" (2006) about his move to the family's former holiday house on the island of Islandmore on Strangford Lough.
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