She served as wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia for 23 years from 1981-2003.

She used her position as the wife of the Prime Minister to campaign tirelessly for women's health, family planning, drug abuse control and adult literacy.

Mrs Brown is merely the wife of the Prime Minister.

Sheila Irene Pant, wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Such ambitions for the wife of the Israeli Prime Minister have not come without costs, as Mrs. Netanyahu has learned in recent weeks.

"I'm the wife of the Prime Minister," she smiled.

As the wife of the Prime Minister she naturally came in for a good share of the limelight.

This appeal was however decisively trumped by the appearance in the constituency of the wife of the Prime Minister.

A front-page picture caption yesterday referred incorrectly to the wife of the Japanese Prime Minister.