Taking Prince’s advice

Press, 31 May 1977, Page 16

Taking Prince’s advice

[ NZPA London * Margaret Trudeau, the estranged wife of the Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre 'Trudeau, plans to take I Prince Charles’s advice and Try to become an actress, a London newspaper says. The “News of the World” quoted Mrs Trudeau, who is 28. as saying Britain's heir to the throne “once told me I was pretty enough to be an actress. So I am taking his advice.” Mrs Trudeau told the paper she has been asked to appear on some television programmes and if that deads to Hollywood acting

I offers, “I’m not walking | away from any chances. I also intend to visit Prince I Charles when I’m next in (London.” [ A statement issued on Friday in Ottawa by the Prime Minister’s office said Mr Trudeau, who is 57, and his wife were separating at her request. The newspaper quoted Margaret as saying she will spend July in New York City looking for an apartment and by September “I [will be completely ready and not just as a photographer.” (She is a special assignment photographer for “People” I magazine of New York. I

; | The marriage has been in [ ['trouble for two years. “It’s jjbeen a sham. Pierre had be-| I'come number one, the child-! • ren number two and me! .(number three. I wanted all! > of us to be equal,” she said. The newspaper quoted ; Mrs Trudeau as saying:! ■ “There's no bitterness and no anger, but I’ve reached ! the decision that I must do [ something positive with my life. It was a hard thing to [do. It was like relinquishing a throne to be an indepenl dent person. I feel, it is ’[something I should have done a long time ago. In a ’(sense we’ve been living sepiarate lives for two years."