Jacqui Smith

[Spacecadet]

BBC News - Jacqui Smith adjusts to life after election defeat

"For Richard to have to literally stay in the house with the curtains drawn for weeks on end. It was hard and I don't see why they should have to put up with it."

I think he was doing that before the controversy!

[Moscow Mule]

Hateful woman.

[darmstadt]

If she's married surely she should be Mrs. Smith yet newspaper reports call her Ms. Is there something we don't know about?

[Spacecadet]

If she's married surely she should be Mrs. Smith yet newspaper reports call her Ms. Is there something we don't know about?

Miss = Not married
Mrs = Married
Ms = Woman (married or otherwise)

Now, I for one never knew she was a woman!

[darmstadt]

Now, I for one never knew she was a woman!

You're quite right:

"Ms is nowadays fully acceptable when a woman wants to be called thus, or when it is not known for certain if she is Mrs or Miss"

Mind you I was always taught that you used Ms. for a divorcee or widow