Adrian Mol… Editing Pandora Braithwaite 0 You are not logged in. The rich text editor does not work with JavaScript switched off. Please either enable it in your browser options, or visit your preferences to switch to the old MediaWiki editor <p data-rte-fromparser="true"><img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BImage%3ALindseyPandora.jpg%20%7Cthumb%20%7C%27%27%27Lindsey%20Stagg%27%27%27%20as%20teenage%20Pandora%2C%20in%20ITV%20series%20%27%27The%20secret%20Diary%20of%20Adrian%20Mole%20Aged%2013%203%5C%2F4%27%27%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22LindseyPandora.jpg%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22LindseyPandora%22%2C%22thumbnail%22%3Atrue%2C%22caption%22%3A%22%27%27%27Lindsey%20Stagg%27%27%27%20as%20teenage%20Pandora%2C%20in%20ITV%20series%20%27%27The%20secret%20Diary%20of%20Adrian%20Mole%20Aged%2013%203%5C%2F4%27%27%22%2C%22captionParsed%22%3A%22%3Cb%3ELindsey%20Stagg%3C%5C%2Fb%3E%20as%20teenage%20Pandora%2C%20in%20ITV%20series%20%3Ci%3EThe%20secret%20Diary%20of%20Adrian%20Mole%20Aged%2013%203%5C%2F4%3C%5C%2Fi%3E%22%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/adrianmole/images/f/f9/LindseyPandora.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20080910153439" width="180" height="215" class="image thumb withCaption" data-image-name="LindseyPandora.jpg" data-image-key="LindseyPandora.jpg" type="image" /> </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1"><b>Pandora Louise Elizabeth Braithwaite</b> (born 1967) was Adrian Mole's first girlfriend and the love of his life. She is academically brilliant and a gifted linguist, later becoming a Member of Parliament and junior minister in <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Tony%20Blair%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Tony%20Blair%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BTony%20Blair%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" class="new" title="Tony Blair (page does not exist)" rel="nofollow" data-uncrawlable-url="L3dpa2kvVG9ueV9CbGFpcj9hY3Rpb249ZWRpdCZyZWRsaW5rPTE=">Tony Blair</a>'s <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22external%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22New%20Labour%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22http%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FLabour_Party_%28UK%29%22%2C%22linktype%22%3A%22text%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5Bhttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fen.wikipedia.org%5C%2Fwiki%5C%2FLabour_Party_%28UK%29%20New%20Labour%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" class="text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)">New Labour</a> government and being featured as one of Blair's babes. </p> <h3>Early Life</h3> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">Pandora is the only daughter of <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Ivan%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Ivan%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BIvan%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Ivan" title="Ivan" class="mw-redirect">Ivan</a> Braithwaite and Tania Braithwaite. She first moves to <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Ashby-de-la-Zouch%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Ashby-de-la-Zouch%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BAshby-de-la-Zouch%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" class="new" title="Ashby-de-la-Zouch (page does not exist)" rel="nofollow" data-uncrawlable-url="L3dpa2kvQXNoYnktZGUtbGEtWm91Y2g/YWN0aW9uPWVkaXQmcmVkbGluaz0x">Ashby-de-la-Zouch</a>, Leicester, and into Adrian's life, in January 1981. Adrian falls in love with Pandora when they sit next to each other in Geography at school. To him, she is the embodiment of adolescent sexual and romantic obsession. Pandora also has a short relationship with <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Nigel%20Hetherington%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Nigel%20Hetherington%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BNigel%20Hetherington%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Nigel_Hetherington" title="Nigel Hetherington">Nigel Hetherington</a>, and later one with <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Bruce%20Henderson%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Bruce%20Henderson%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BBruce%20Henderson%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Bruce_Henderson" title="Bruce Henderson" class="mw-redirect">Bruce Henderson</a> (Brain-Box Henderson). Adrian is her long-term teenage boyfriend, despite a number of break-ups, and she swears she will always love him; however, she never consents to actual sex with him. In later years she comes to regard Adrian with purely platonic affection (or sometimes, with contempt), but he remains permanently enamoured of her. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Pandora has a pony called Blossom. </p> <h3 data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Oxford Years</h3> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">After acquiring her A-levels, Pandora goes on to study Mandarin, Russian and Serbo-Croat at <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22external%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Oxford%20University%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22http%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fwww.ox.ac.uk%5C%2F%22%2C%22linktype%22%3A%22text%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5Bhttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fwww.ox.ac.uk%5C%2F%20Oxford%20University%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/">Oxford University</a>. She graduates with a double first and marries her first husband, <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Julian%20Twyselton-Fife%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Julian%20Twyselton-Fife%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BJulian%20Twyselton-Fife%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Julian_Twyselton-Fife" title="Julian Twyselton-Fife">Julian Twyselton-Fife</a> whilst staying on to do a doctoral degree. The marriage is only one of convenience, as Pandora believes that "first marriages should be gotten over with quickly;" Julian prefers his own sex, while Pandora continues to have a series of relationships with physically or mentally powerful men, most notably bodybuilder <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Rocky%20Livingstone%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Rocky%20Livingstone%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BRocky%20Livingstone%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Rocky_Livingstone" title="Rocky Livingstone">Rocky Livingstone</a> and linguistics professor <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Jack%20Cavendish%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Jack%20Cavendish%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BJack%20Cavendish%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Jack_Cavendish" title="Jack Cavendish">Jack Cavendish</a>. We are never told when (or <i>if</i>) Julian and Pandora actually divorce. She also assists <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Barry%20Kent%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Barry%20Kent%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BBarry%20Kent%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Barry_Kent" title="Barry Kent">Barry Kent</a> with his literary career, inviting him to dine at her college and recite his poetry to the undergraduates. </p> <h3 data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Political Career</h3> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">In 1997, Pandora became a Member of Parliament. Becoming a high-profile member of the new government, she is later appointed a Junior Minister in the Foreign Office. At one point, she amazes the public by greeting a Chinese delegation in fluent Mandarin. As a consumate politician, she panders to environmental and social issues in every public statement - but sometime privately admits to an anti-environmental sentiment, as in <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Adrian%20Mole%3A%20Diary%20of%20a%20Provincial%20Man%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Adrian%20Mole%3A%20Diary%20of%20a%20Provincial%20Man%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BAdrian%20Mole%3A%20Diary%20of%20a%20Provincial%20Man%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Adrian_Mole:_Diary_of_a_Provincial_Man" title="Adrian Mole: Diary of a Provincial Man">Adrian Mole: Diary of a Provincial Man</a>. <!-- RTE::{"spaces":0,"type":"LINE_BREAK"} --><img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BImage%3AHelenB.jpg%20%7Cthumb%20%7C%27%27%27Helen%20Baxendale%27%27%27%2C%20who%20portrays%20Pandora%20in%20BBC%20TV%20series%20%27%27Adrian%20Mole%3A%20The%20Cappuccino%20Years%27%27%7Cright%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22HelenB.jpg%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22HelenB%22%2C%22thumbnail%22%3Atrue%2C%22align%22%3A%22right%22%2C%22caption%22%3A%22right%22%2C%22captionParsed%22%3A%22%3Cb%3EHelen%20Baxendale%3C%5C%2Fb%3E%2C%20who%20portrays%20Pandora%20in%20BBC%20TV%20series%20%3Ci%3EAdrian%20Mole%3A%20The%20Cappuccino%20Years%3C%5C%2Fi%3E%22%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/adrianmole/images/6/6c/HelenB.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20080908192110" width="180" height="224" class="image thumb alignRight withCaption" data-image-name="HelenB.jpg" data-image-key="HelenB.jpg" type="image" /> </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Pandora falls out of favour in 2003, after opposing the invasion of Iraq, and resigns her Cabinet position (<a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Adrian%20Mole%20and%20the%20Weapons%20of%20Mass%20Destruction%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Adrian%20Mole%20and%20the%20Weapons%20of%20Mass%20Destruction%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BAdrian%20Mole%20and%20the%20Weapons%20of%20Mass%20Destruction%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="8352-13069166505da553aa26acc" href="/wiki/Adrian_Mole_and_the_Weapons_of_Mass_Destruction" title="Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction">Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction</a>). Further humiliation comes when her biography, <i>Out of the Box</i>, proves to be a literary flop, with only 12 copies sold at its much-publicised launch. (The book contains a list of 112 different lovers, and only 2 direct references to Adrian). She continues as MP for Ashby-de-la Zouch, although blackballed. She admits that she still loves Adrian, as he is the only person she feels she can talk to freely. </p><p /> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key adrianmole:rte-parser-cache:1893 --> Loading editor characters The Secret Diary characters The Growing Pains characters The Confessions characters The Wilderness Years characters The Cappuccino Years characters The Weapons of Mass Destruction characters Below are some commonly used wiki markup codes. Simply click on what you want to use and it will appear in the edit box above. 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