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D'Alpuget is the only child of Josephine Curgenven and Louis Albert Poincaré d'Alpuget (1915–2006), journalist, author, blue water yachtsman and champion boxer. Her great-aunt, Blanche d'Alpuget, after whom she was named, was a pioneer woman journalist in Sydney and a patron of artists. [1] Her father was a sports and feature writer and also ...
Blanche d’Alpuget Blanche d’Alpuget is an award-winning Australian writer of French and English heritage. Her latest work is a quintet of novels set in 12th C France and England, illuminating the lives of Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine who, before becoming his wife, was Queen of France.
Feb 2, 2023 · Blanche D’Alpuget was born in 1944, the daughter of Lou d’Alpuget and Josie Stephenson, and grew up in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. She attended Sydney Church of England Girls’ Grammar School ...
Blanche d’Alpuget met Bob Hawke at a party in 1970 when she was just 26 years old. She was the cosseted wife of Australian diplomat Tony Pratt, living in Jakarta with five servants and a chauffeur.
September 24, 2020 - 3:03AM. Blanche d‘Alpuget, a writer and widow of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, has spoken of the “sheer hell” of breast cancer treatment, revealing she had ...
Book 2. The second book in the captivating Birth of the Plantagenets series brings the 12th-century reign of Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, to vivid life. 1154. After years of manipulation and political cunning, young Henry II accedes to the throne of England, with the beautiful and indomitable Eleanor of Aquitaine by his side.
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Jun 20, 2019 · The author of Winter in Jerusalem, and widow of Bob Hawke, on spiritual awakenings, digesting the Bible and her latest installment in the Birth of the Plantagenets series. Author Blanche d'Alpuget ...
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