True to her own life, Blanche d’Alpuget leaves a rule to live by: ‘Love one another’

D’Alpuget was a successful author who brought her own star power to her relationship with her ‘great love’, Bob HawkeBlanche d’Alpuget, writer and wife of Bob Hawke, dies aged 82Craig Emerson: ‘Blanche d’Alpuget wasn’t just Bob Hawke’s wife. She was a fierce intellect who only saw the good in people’Long before “Bob & Blanche” was scrawled on a three-tier wedding cake in red icing, Blanche d’Alpuget was a star in her own right.“She was a tremendously successful writer before she was publicly associated with Bob Hawke,” University of Canberra professor Chris Wallace says.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...