Original Publish Date » April 11 , 2025
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She’s scored hat tricks in hockey, worked for think tanks and consultants, and gotten in hot water with the British tabloids. So who is Diana Fox Carney, really?
Mark Colley / Toronto Star » It was on the ice at the University of Oxford where Mark Carney first met his wife.
She was new to skating, but that didn’t make any difference — she had quickly become the best player on the team. She could skate faster than anyone else, handle the puck well and had a good shot.
It was from the ice that Diana Fox caught the attention of a five-foot-nine-inch goalie on the Oxford men’s team, the future prime minister of Canada.
“Mark was watching an ice hockey game that Diana was playing in and he asked someone, ‘Who’s that person over there?’”
