Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
On Olga Havel (1933–1996)
By Timothy Garton Ash
Olga Havlová, the wife of Václav Havel, died of cancer on January 27 this year. A few days later, tens of thousands of people queued up to pay their last respects at the Castle in Prague. They were paying their respects not just to the wife of an extraordinary president but to a woman who was herself remarkable.
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