Liz Truss has been elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, defeating Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399. She is the country’s fourth Tory Prime Minister since 2015. Truss is now the UK’s third female prime minister, following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher.

Truss was born on July 26, 1975, in Oxford, England, to John Kenneth and Priscilla Mary Truss. Her age is 47 years. Her father was a mathematics professor at the University of Leeds, and her mother was a nurse, teacher, and campaigner for nuclear disarmament.

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Liz Truss is married to Hugh O’Leary. O’Leary is a chartered accountant with a background in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Truss recalled their first date in a 2019 interview with You magazine, saying: “I invited him ice-skating and he sprained his ankle.” The couple first connected in 1997 at the Tory Party conference.

The couple married in the year 2000. Their relationship hit a roadblock in 2006, when her affair with then-married Tory MP Mark Field became public. When asked about the affair in the same 2019 interview, Truss responded, “I am really happily married.”

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When asked about the affair, O’Leary told the Daily Mail, “I don’t want to talk about it.”

Later that year, she also posted pictures of herself and O’Leary on social media, describing him as the love of her life. Truss and O’Leary have two daughters, Frances, 16, and Liberty, 13.

The Guardian reports that whether Liz Truss’ family moves into No. 10 or, more likely, No. 11, Downing Street—where every prime minister since 1997 has chosen to live because its living quarters are larger and feature an open-plan kitchen in trendy stainless steel—their two daughters, Liberty, and Florence, are unfazed, according to friends of the family.

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According to The Guardian, the girls are “very excited” about the prospect of moving into one of the most prestigious addresses in the world, where the back door opens directly into the 23-hectare St James’s Park. They are already planning sleepovers with their friends at Downing Street and Chequers, which has a large lawn and heated swimming pool.