Family
Roberts married Elizabeth Smith, a scholar of French poetry and formerly a diplomat in the Australian Foreign Service, in 1974. The couple have two sons and a daughter.
Lady Roberts is a writer and lecturer on Balkan politics.
Read more about this topic: Ivor Roberts (diplomat)
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“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
—Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
“Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Father ran a nonpartisan daily in a small town, with some success, and did not wish to express his own opinions in public, even when in private.”
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“Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.”
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