Blanche D’Alpuget,the widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke,is trading in her Hyde Park “city retreat” for another apartment in the tower next door.
The 76-year-old found a lump on her breast about six weeks ago and is now undergoing chemotherapy to fight the disease.
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Bob Hawke and second wife Blanche d’Alpuget's marriage lasted almost a quarter of a century. Now,six months after the former PM’s passing,the author is ready to write her next chapter.
Roslyn Dillon has engaged a law firm to contest her father's will,which reportedly gives the vast bulk of his assets to his second wife.
Blanche D'Alpuget has revealed her late husband Bob Hawke did not get to vote before he died.
The final full day of the campaign was inevitably overshadowed by the death of Labor's longest-serving prime minister.
Bob Hawke and Blanche d'Alpuge declared their love to the world in a flurry of white towelling robes and married in a storm of media attention. They spoke to Good Weekend in 1998 about sex,scandal,and what they did for love.
Back in 1994,every media outlet wanted to capture the first photo of Bob Hawke with his new love Blanche d'Alpuget. Finally,one man got it - with Hawke in his swimmers.
Grief can be a great medicine and is the inspiration for much writing.