The fallout of the separation might prove more costly if the private struggles of the marriage become public.
The current monarch, King Charles, knows quite a bit about marital breakdowns, as he separated from Princess Diana, his spouse and mother of two children, in 1993, divorced in 1996 and remarried in 2005.
There was certainly fretting within the Prime Minister’s Office at the time about the public options of the separation — and suggestions it could actually make Canadians more sympathetic towards the elder Trudeau. He separated in 1977 and lost the election in 1979, but he was re-elected in 1980 and governed for another four years, retaining primary responsibility for three young children — Canada’s first and only single dad prime minister until this week.
In a few weeks, he might also appoint a woman to the Supreme Court of Canada, which would give women the majority on the nation’s highest court.Article content
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