The new Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt with his wife Zara in... News Photo Getty Images


Australian prime minister Harold Holt with his wife Zara and their... News Photo Getty Images

How did Harold Holt go missing? The Prime Minister of Australia from 1966-1967, Holt was an avid outdoorsman and loved to swim in the ocean near to where he lived Portsea, Victoria. On the morning of December 17, Holt woke up in Portsea, called his wife, and went to the store.


My Life And Harry An Autobiography Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, wife of

Harold Edward Holt CH (5 August 1908 - 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia .


Harold Holt Portraits. November 22, 1962. . News Photo Getty Images

The sensational disappearance of former prime minister Harold Holt, off a remote Victorian beach in December 1967, captured the world's attention. But the lack of a body led to an avalanche of.


Mulligan, J. A. (John Aloysius), 19271996. Mrs. Zara Holt, wife of Prime Minister Harold Holt

On this day fifty years ago, December 19, 1967, it was announced that the then-Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead. Mr. Holt, who had been Prime Minister for 22 months, from January 1966, had disappeared two days earlier while swimming in the ocean at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, in the state of Victoria.His body was never found, despite a three-week search.


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1960s politicians 'He loved women', says Dame Zara Bates in this interview from the documentaryThe Harold Holt Mystery (Ten Network, 1985). Bates recalls Holt as a man who could easily make woman fall in love with him. Throughout their marriage she had to turn a blind eye to his many affairs.


My Life And Harry An Autobiography Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, wife of

Background Harold Holt became the 17th prime minister of Australia in January 1966, following the retirement of Sir Robert Menzies. Holt was a career politician, entering parliament at the age of 27 and becoming a government minister at the age of 31. [1]


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Dame Zara Kate Bate DBE ( née Dickins; previously Fell and Holt; 10 March 1909 - 14 June 1989) was an Australian fashion entrepreneur. She was best known as the wife of Harold Holt, who was prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance in 1967. Early life


Issue 2 Feb 1966 The Australian Women's Week...then Prime Minister Harold Holt with his

October 30, 2012. Died peacefully. Adored mother of Wayne (decd), Sheriden (decd) and Vyner. Loved mother-in-law of Kerry and John. Loving grandmother of Alexis, husband Ben and great-granddaughters Stella and Pippa. Privately Cremated.


The new Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt with his wife Zara in... News Photo Getty Images

News National Fifty years on, Harold Holt's family remember 'genuine humanitarian' and loving father By Jonathan Kearsley • US Correspondent 8:42am Dec 17, 2017 Today marks 50 years since Harold Holt vanished. It was a day at the beach that ended in tragedy.


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VANISHED former prime minister Harold Holt could have been kidnapped by a Chinese submarine that was yellow but one thing we do know is that Marjorie Gillespie, his lover who was with him on a beach near Portsea, has died.


Prime Minister Harold Holt with American President Lyndon Johnson and the First Lady naa.gov.au

Harold Holt is remembered more for his death than for his life. But he had a long and distinguished parliamentary career that culminated in January 1966 when he took over the prime ministership. He had been Robert Menzies's treasurer and became his anointed successor after sixteen years of conservative rule.. Holt and his wife Zara had a.


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Holt and his wife Zara were neighbours after buying a renovated service building on one of eight lots when the Gillespies subdivided their Weeroona Ave property in 1961. Harold Holt was often seen.


50 years on Disappearing prime minister Harold Holt The Courier Mail

12/17/2017 On December 17, 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at an isolated south coast beach and was never seen again. Fifty years on, conspiracy theories surrounding.


Harold Holt's partner Zara Holt naa.gov.au

Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared at Cheviot Beach, Victoria on 17 December 1967. No trace of him was ever found and the case remains one of Australia's greatest mysteries. How could the leader of the country simply vanish while still in office?


'President Johnson was in tears' remembering Harold Holt

Sat 16 Dec 2017 18.28 EST I t was a quintessential Australian death. On 17 December 1967, Australia's 17th prime minister, Harold Edward Holt, waded into the churning surf at Victoria's Cheviot.


Last man to see Harold Holt alive His love for mistress Marjorie Gillespie no fling Daily

As a 'political wife', Zara Holt brought a valuable dowry to her marriage to Harold Edward Holt. For 20 years before he became Prime Minister, her charm, candour and business connections fuelled his political career.

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