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Sarah Brown is the wife of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after marrying him in August 2000. Born Sarah Macaulay, she first spoke to Gordon Brown in 1994 whilst on a flight to Scotland for the 1994 Scottish Labour Party conference, and the pair soon began to become romantically involved. Their relationship remained a secret to the public until photographs of them together at a restaurant appeared in the News of the World in 1997. Married on 2000, the couple had their first child, Jennifer Jane in 2001, who was born prematurely and died 10 days after her birth. Since then, Mrs. Brown has had two children, boys John, and James Fraser (born in 2003 and 2006). In 2006, James Fraser was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

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Brown appears in the grip of an odd euphoria

29.09.09
"Lighten up", Peter Mandelson instructed Gloomy Gordon, and Sarah Brown, as usual, got the message before her husband. She was sporting a lustrous honey-tinted hair colour and had forsaken those forbidding beige and red numbers for a vibrant splash of a floral dress. ... more

On trend and on message, the wife in fashionable floral

29.09.09
For a speech that was all hearts and flowers, Sarah Brown's dress couldn't have been more appropriate. Nor could it have been more "on trend" if one of London's top stylists had hand-picked it from Harvey Nicks... more

Diversity star smashes head performing on Downing Street stage

17.09.09
VIDEO: Diversity dancer Perri Luc Kiely was left in tears when he took a tumble as the Britain's Got Talent winners performed for Prime Minister Gordon Brown ... more

Women miss health check-ups because they fear losing job

16.09.09
Career women are risking cancer and infertility by delaying vital health checks because they are afraid of being sacked, experts warned... more

Browns show off the fruits of their labour in Downing Street garden

23.07.09
Gordon and Sarah Brown have shown off their own vegetable patch in the back garden at Downing Street... more

Shame on the no-shows for Silvio Berlusconi's big day

09.07.09
In real life, when someone’s having a bad year, families tend to rally round. But the top table of world leaders isn’t like that, it seems ... more

As ex-topless model meets G8 wives, France’s first lady stays away

08.07.09
A former topless model was today joining Sarah Brown for tea with the Pope as the G8 summit of the world’s leading nations began... more

City Spy: Slaughtered — by a £22m legal bill

25.06.09
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott says he was “staggered” to find out Slaughter and May cost the Treasury £22 million last year for legal advice on the credit crunch... more

Best small brands get lesson on going global

03.06.09
The capital's leading upmarket small retailers are getting coaching to help them defy the recession and become as big as British brands such as Burberry... more

Legwear: Dare you bare?

10.05.09
Like Sarah Brown and Mrs O, at this time of year women can't agree about legwear... more

Sarah Brown’s got talent … and Piers Morgan in hollywood

23.04.09
Who can blame Sarah Brown for getting as far away from Number 10 as possible? The Prime Minister’s wife was dining yesterday at the Ivy in Los Angeles with Sharon Osbourne, broadcaster June Sarpong, Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins and Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan ... more

Sarah swaps gloom for Hollywood glitz at first wives summit

22.04.09
Gordon Brown's wife and Tony Blair escaped Britain for Los Angeles - as the Prime Minister faced the grimmest Budget in living memory... more

President makes a beeline for JK and says I love Harry Potter

02.04.09
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Do you bare?

02.04.09
Like Sarah Brown and Mrs O, at this time of year women can’t agree about legwear ... more

Sparkling, bright and sharp ... and that’s just Mrs O’s fashion sense

01.04.09
Let's be positive and see Michelle Obama's wardrobe thus far as a metaphor for all the sparkling, bright change the G20 summit will effect... more

Brown and Obama stand shoulder to shoulder

01.04.09
Barack Obama and Gordon Brown staged a historic show of unity as world leaders gathered for the G20 summit... more

Come on Sarah, you can compete with Carla

27.03.09
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Glossy photocalls and charity lunches for the first wives club

27.03.09
A full programme has been arranged for the partners of the world's leaders attending the G20 summit although security considerations are preventing disclosure of its details until the last minute... more

Obama's blockbuster gift for Brown: 25 classic films

05.03.09
Gordon Brown has been given a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD as his official gift from Barack Obama... more

Michelle's $15 gift for the boys

04.03.09
The pile of gifts at the White House from Gordon and Sarah Brown has grown even higher... more

Michelle and Sarah hold wives' summit

02.03.09
Sarah Brown and Michelle Obama will hold a "Spouses' Summit" in Washington... more

Wife of PM launches help for families

18.12.08
Sarah Brown spoke of the pain of her parents' divorce as she launched a government plan to help families through the trauma of breaking up... more

Brown's biggest asset Sarah goes into battle

22.09.08
Whatever the fate of the Brown government, one figure in his camp can hardly be faulted for grit in times of trouble: Sarah Brown... more

65-year-old Cilla eclipses supermodels at charity fashion show

18.09.08
Veteran singer and TV star Cilla Black showed off a magnificent pair of legs as she flounced down the catwalk, to the strains of her hit song Anyone Who Had a Heart... more

Cilla shakes a lorra, lorra leg

18.09.08
Veteran singer and TV star Cilla Black showed off a magnificent pair of legs as she flounced down the catwalk, to the strains of her hit song Anyone Who Had a Heart... more

Sarah steps into the limelight – but too late

11.09.08
Just when you thought you'd had enough of prominent women in politics called Sarah, here comes another one... more

Is that you, Mrs Brown? PM's wife Sarah and friends look a delight in white as she gets used to the limelight

03.09.08
Since her husband was handed the keys to Number 10, Sarah Brown has not looked particularly comfortable in the limelight.... more

Sarah Brown swaps shoes as glam Sam is barefoot on the beach

28.07.08
She probably told herself it was all in a good cause, but whether the cause that attracted her to a celebrity heavy girly "accessory swap shop" at the home of Australian author Kathy Lette was raising money for charity or to assist her husband's desperate political plight, only Sarah Brown will know... more

Labour's biggest fear is a Brown Stalingrad

23.07.08
As MPs pack their bags for the summer holidays, we examine the restlessness among Gordon Brown's backbenchers and the bitter rivalries that are still destabilising Downing Street ... more

Miliband lines up Purnell as Gordon grins and bears it

22.07.08
Tonight the PM will host a summer party at No 10 before he leaves for his holidays when he will have plenty of time to reflect on his increasingly troubled leadership... more

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  • Facts
  • Mrs. Brown was born in Buckinghamshire to an English mother and Scottish father, and spent her early childhood in Tanzania before moving to North London.
  • After graduating from Camden School of Girls in London, Mrs. Brown attended the Bristol University to pursue a degree in psychology
  • At 30 years old, Mrs. Brown co-founded the Hobsbawm Macaulay public relations firm with her old school friend Julia Hobsbawm, although she left in 2001 when she discovered she was pregnant with her first child
  • In 2002, Brown founded Piggy Bank Kids which is now a fund to aid disadvantaged children, as well as a fund for research into countering pregnancy complications
  • Brown is a patron of two charities, Women’s Aid (a domestic violence charity), and Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre
  • Brown is a close friend of the author of the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling

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