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| birth_name = Adrienne Louise Poy
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|2|10}}
| birth_place = [[Victoria, Hong Kong|Victoria]], [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]
| spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|[[Stephen Clarkson]]|1963|1975|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[John Ralston Saul]]|1999}}}}
| father = [[William Poy]]
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'''Adrienne Louise Clarkson''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|CC|CMM|COM|CD|FRSC(hon)|FRAIC(hon)|FRCPSC(hon)}} ({{zh|c=伍冰枝}}; {{née|'''Poy'''}}; born February 10, 1939) is a [[British Hong
Clarkson arrived in Canada with her family in 1941, as a [[refugee]] from [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong|Japanese-occupied Hong Kong]], and was raised in [[Ottawa]]. After receiving a number of university degrees, Clarkson worked as a producer and broadcaster for the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) and a journalist for various magazines. Her first diplomatic posting came in the early 1980s, when she promoted [[Ontario|Ontarian]] culture in [[France]] and other [[Europe]]an countries. In 1999, she was appointed [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] by Queen [[Elizabeth II]], on the recommendation of [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Jean Chrétien]], to replace [[Roméo LeBlanc]] as [[viceroy]], a post which she occupied until 2005, when she was succeeded by [[Michaëlle Jean]]. While Clarkson's appointment as the Canadian vicereine was generally welcomed at first, she caused some controversy during her time serving as the Queen's representative, mostly due to costs incurred in the operation of her office, as well as a somewhat anti-monarchist attitude toward the position.
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==Personal life==
Since the 1980s, Clarkson has been in a relationship with Canadian writer and philosopher [[John Ralston Saul]]. In 1963, Clarkson married [[Stephen Clarkson]], a University of Toronto [[political science]] professor. Together, the couple had three daughters: Kyra, born in 1969, and twins Blaise and Chloe, born in 1971; at the age of nine months, however, Chloe died of [[sudden infant death syndrome]]. Adrienne and Stephen [[divorce]]d four years later. Her daughters have been estranged from her and were adopted by Christine McCall, Stephen Clarkson’s second wife.<ref name="fact.on.ca">{{cite web | url=http://fact.on.ca/newpaper/gm99100h.htm | title=Clarkson's daughters will shun ceremony }}</ref> Blaise is a family doctor in Toronto<ref
A member of the [[Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Toronto)|Church of St. Mary Magdalene]], Clarkson is a devout [[Anglican]], as is her entire family going back five generations, with her uncle being a [[priest]] in the [[Sheng Kung Hui|Anglican Church in Hong Kong]]. Clarkson chose to attend Trinity College at the University of Toronto because of its Anglican associations, and, while there, she casually dated divinity student [[Michael Peers]], who would later become an [[archbishop]] and [[primate of the Anglican Church of Canada]]. This friendship was maintained over the years, and Peers presided over Clarkson's marriage to Saul, officiated at her installation as governor general, and presided over the funerals of both her parents. Clarkson is also credited for returning prayer to the viceregal installation ceremony, which had been removed when Roméo LeBlanc was installed in 1995.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Adrienne Clarkson Installed as Governor General| journal=Canadian Monarchist News| volume=Autumn 1999| publisher=Monarchist League of Canada| location=Toronto| year=1999| url=http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/1999/installed.htm| access-date=March 1, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708023432/http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/1999/installed.htm| archive-date=July 8, 2009 }}</ref>
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