Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, was "a woman of indomitable energy".
Jillian Robertson was born in Sydney on January 30, 1940, the daughter of a First World War veteran, and grew up in Townsville, Queensland. In 1961 she began to train as a newspaper reporter with Donald Horne, and after three years she was sent to report from London as one of his newspaper group's youngest foreign correspondents. She gave up journalism in about 1968 after becoming pregnant, and shortly after married the father - fellow journalist Martin Page. The marriage shortly ended in divorce, and was later annulled by the Catholic Church.
She remarried firstly to newspaper dynast Edward Hulton, and then in 1988 to the Scottish peer Angus, 15th Duke of Hamilton. All three marJill, Duchess of Hamilton, was "a woman of indomitable energy".
Jillian Robertson was born in Sydney on January 30, 1940, the daughter of a First World War veteran, and grew up in Townsville, Queensland. In 1961 she began to train as a newspaper reporter with Donald Horne, and after three years she was sent to report from London as one of his newspaper group's youngest foreign correspondents. She gave up journalism in about 1968 after becoming pregnant, and shortly after married the father - fellow journalist Martin Page. The marriage shortly ended in divorce, and was later annulled by the Catholic Church.
She remarried firstly to newspaper dynast Edward Hulton, and then in 1988 to the Scottish peer Angus, 15th Duke of Hamilton. All three marriages ended in divorce, after which she swore not to remarry and returned to her previous career in journalism and writing. Her son by her first marriage was her only child.
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