Mr Hague met her when he became Secretary of State for Wales in 1995 under the John Major's government. Determined not to repeat the faux-pas of his predecessor, John Redwood, who was famously seen miming the words to the Welsh national anthem, Hague recruited a civil servant, Miss Jenkins, to help him learn the words.
They married in December 1997, shortly after he had been elected leader of the UK Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition.
Upon marriage, Mrs. Hague resigned from the Civil Service.