University, Marriage, Family
She studied law at the London School of Economics and graduated with First Class Honours. She later came at the top of her year in the bar exams, while teaching law at the Polytechnic of Central London (University of Westminster). In 1976, while she was studying to become a barrister, she met future Prime Minister and husband Tony Blair. She obtained a pupillage in the chambers of Derry Irvine ahead of him, although he was also taken on. Married on 29 March 1980, they have four children: Euan, Nicholas, Kathryn, and Leo. Leo was the first child born to a serving Prime Minister in over 150 years, since Francis Russell was born to Lord John Russell on 11 July 1849. Another pregnancy at the age of 47 ended in miscarriage in early August 2002.
In July 1999 she was awarded an Honorary Degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University.
She is also a distant relative of John Wilkes Booth the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
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