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"Fairy tales don't happen, real life happens." -- Margaret (Sinclair, Trudeau) Kemper

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Margaret Trudeau? An important author?

Her memoir Beyond Reason () will be read in the next century because she was one-half of the most famous couple in Canadian history. Born as Margaret Joan Sinclair in , the so-called "flower child" was the daughter of West Vancouver's leading federal Liberal Party official, James Sinclair, a former federal Fisheries Minister.

In , she wed year-old Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in a private ceremony in Vancouver.

At age 18, she had first met Trudeau, then Minister of Justice, while vacationing in Tahiti, but this encounter was not particularly memorable for her.

Book margaret trudeau biography

He nonetheless began to pursue her. Prior to their separation in , she gave birth to three sons, Justin, Sacha and Michel. She resented her husband's prolonged absences and was often criticized for her free-spirited behaviour at formal gove