Cherie Blair
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Cherie Blair CBE QC |
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| Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
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In role 2 May 1997 – 27 June 2007 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Norma Major |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Brown |
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| Born |
Theresa Cara Booth 23 September 1954 Bury, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Tony Blair (m. 1980) |
| Relations |
Lauren Booth (paternal half-sister) Patricia Phoenix (stepmother) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parents |
Antony Booth Gale Howard |
| Alma mater |
London School of Economics The University of Law |
| Profession | Barrister |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | cherieblair |
Cherie Blair, CBE, QC (née Booth; born 23 September 1954), known as Cherie Blair or professionally as Cherie Booth, is a British barrister and lecturer. She is married to the former prime minister, Tony Blair.
Booth was born at Fairfield Hospital, Bury, Lancashire, England, and brought up in Ferndale Road, Waterloo, Lancashire, just north of Liverpool. Her father, British actor Tony Booth, left her mother, actress Gale Howard (14 February 1933 - 5 June 2016) (née Joyce Smith), when Cherie was 8 years old. Cherie and her younger sister Lyndsey were then brought up by Gale and their paternal grandmother Vera Booth, a devout Roman Catholic of Irish descent. The sisters attended Catholic schools in Crosby, Lancashire. Cherie Booth attended Seafield Convent Grammar, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College, where she achieved 4 Grade-A GCE A Level passes.
She read law at the London School of Economics and graduated with First-Class Honours. Later she was enrolled at the College of Law and passed her BVC. She came at the top of her year in the bar exams, while teaching law at the Polytechnic of Central London (University of Westminster). She was the Labour candidate for the Conservative safe seat of North Thanet in Kent in the 1983 general election, losing to Roger Gale.
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