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4 unusual facts about Anne Kerr


Anne Kerr

Anne Kerr, Lady Kerr (1914–1997), Australian interpreter, second wife of the Governor-General of Australia, John Kerr

Anne Kerr, Lady Kerr

She was privy to her husband's thoughts and anxieties as the 1975 constitutional crisis developed, but in his autobiography Matters for Judgement (1978) Sir John Kerr strongly denied she had either dissuaded him from warning the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam that he was going to dismiss him, or that she herself had a political axe to grind.

She appeared as an official French-English interpreter at more than 30 international conferences over ten years, including Colombo Plan meetings.

Robert Kerr, 2nd Earl of Lothian

As he had no male heirs, he had already obtained a charter for his lands and titles so that his daughter, Anne Kerr could succeed him.



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