The birth of Justin Trudeau on Christmas Day 1971 had a lot of people talking. One distinguished Canadian who noted the birth of the future Prime Minister was none other than past Prime Minister Lester Pearson. His son, Geoffrey, was also a Christmas baby after all.
In a Christmas letter to Geoffrey, Pearson said one of his first thoughts upon hearing of the new baby over at 24 Sussex was about Twiggy, the British supermodel of the day, and her manager, Justin de Villeneuve.
“(There is) another Xmas baby to join Geoffrey Pearson,” the past PM wrote, “called no doubt, after that ‘Justin’ who is Twiggy’s boyfriend!”
As Justin would himself go on to become a pop culture sensation in his own right, Pearson was on to something with his comments about Twiggy and Justin!
Happy Christmas all from Art’s History. And, happy birthday Prime Minister from Kingston.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.