Penelope Fillon
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 Penelope Fillon facts

• She was the Spouse of the Prime Minister of France from 17 May 2007 to 10 May 2012
• Born and raised in Wales, Fillon is a graduate of the University College London and the University of Bristol Law School
• She worked as an English teacher at a secondary school in France in the late 1970s, where she met her future husband
• François and Penelope Fillon married in 1980 and have five children
• They are Catholic
• Throughout her husband's political career, she has remained fairly uninvolved in national politics and has mostly stayed out of the public eye, and has been labelled "discreet" by the media
• Despite her reputation as being private, Fillon ran for a seat on the municipal council of the Solesmes, Sarthe commune in which she and her husband reside
• When François Fillon began running for the French presidency in 2017, she emerged in the public eye to campaign for her husband
• Penelope Fillon rose to prominence in January 2017, when French newspaper Le Canard enchaîné published an article in which she was accused of being paid €500,000 in public money over eight years as her husband's "assistant" while performing no or very little work
• The public outcry that followed led the controversy to be labelled "Penelopegate" by some, despite her husband denying any wrongdoing