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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“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.”
—Francis Picabia (18781953)
“The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)