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 <div class=" " itemprop="articleBody" data-js="article-body"> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="component article-body-text " data-test="article-body-text"> <p>Betty Boothroyd, the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, has died at the age of 93.</p><p>The crossbench peer broke 700 years of tradition when she was elected the first woman Speaker in the spring of 1992.</p><p>She died at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge on Sunday.</p><p><em><strong>This is a breaking story. More to follow.</strong></em></p> </div>
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The crossbench peer broke 700 years of tradition when she was elected the first woman Speaker in the spring of 1992

Betty Boothroyd, first female Speaker, dies aged 93

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