See woman who married two presidents and became their First Ladies

Graça Machel, is the first and only woman in the world to get married to two president’s of two different countries and became their First Ladies.

Mozambican Graça Machel born on 17 October 1945, the writer of “The Impacts Of War On Children.”

In 1986, Graça Machel became a widow when her husband Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique died in a plane crash inside the border of South African. She had met Machel in 1973 when she came back to Mozambique after her education in Portugal.

Graça joined Frelimo (Liberation Front of Mozambique) that was led by Samora Machel due to her Liberation ideas. She and Samora became lovers during the revolutionary war and got married in August 1975, almost months after Mozambique became Independent.

Graça became the First Lady of Mozambique, and also became the first minister of culture and Education. Then resigned when her husband died in a plane crash.

She mourned her late husband for five years, which made her wear black all throughout the duration and was basically distress. Being a woman gifted with extraordinary skills, she didn’t let her husband’s death stop her from her child advocacy task.

In 1991, Graça Machel launched a foundation to address poverty.

Then, she was always around Nelson Mandela who would become the first black president of South Africa, after their official meeting following his release from prison in year 1990.

The two became friends and later turned into genuine love after Mandela’s divorce with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

On the 18th of July 1998, Graça and Mandela got married on his 80th birthday, making her the only woman in history to be the First Lady of two different countries. She was still an economic and political force in Mozambique.

She once talked about her marriage to two different leaders, “It’s not two leaders who fell in love with me, but two real people. I feel privileged that I have shared my life with the two exceptional men,” she said.

Despite being married to two different important leaders, Graça Machel said she would never want to be defined by her marriages.

”I’m not Samora’s wife, I’m me,” she said in the past.

Meanwhile, Nelson Mandela died in December 2013.