True to her own life, Blanche d’Apulget leaves a rule to live by: ‘Love one another’

D’Apulget was a successful author who brought her own star power to her relationship with her ‘great love’, Bob Hawke Blanche d’Alpuget, writer and wife of Bob Hawke, dies aged 82 Long before “Bob & Blanche” was scrawled on a three-tier wedding cake in red icing, Blanche d’Apulget was a star in her own right. “She was a tremendously successful writer before she was publicly associated with Bob