The First Shopper’s fall from grace

Until a week ago Grace Mugabe was sitting pretty. Not anymore.

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Grace Mugabe: "the Lady Macbeth in the Zimbabwean soap opera"

Until a week ago Grace Mugabe was sitting pretty. The wife of the 93-year-old Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe, she was widely seen as his presumptive successor. Now, following his resignation as president, she has time to ponder her dramatic rise and fall. This began when "Grace, a young married woman who had secured a job in the president's typing pool, found that the president kept sticking around to say hello", says The Guardian's Simon Allison.

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