Mary Fenech Adami

Mary Sciberras Fenech Adami (Maltese: Marija Sciberras Fenech Adami; 13 October 1933 – 8 July 2011) was the wife of the seventh president of Malta, Edward Fenech Adami. She was First Lady of Malta from 2004 to 2009.

Biography

Early and personal life Mary Sciberras was born in Sliema on 13 October 1933, and attended Sliema State Secondary School. She married Edward Fenech Adami on 27 June 1965. The couple had five children. Fenech Adami was a private woman, but was "regarded as her husband’s pillar of strength throughout his lengthy political career". On 15 October 1979, a large group of thugs ransacked various Nationalist Party clubs and the private residence of Mary and Edward Fenech Adami in Birkirkara, after attacking the premises of the newspaper, The Times of Malta. Mary, who was returning from mass, found her home's front door wide open, and ten men inside ransacking the residence.

The 1979 attack, later called "Black Monday", consolidated Eddie Fenech Adami's leadership as in the Nationalist Party. She continued to walk to the local market to buy her own groceries. As First Lady, Fenech Adami did take part in charitable events, such as visiting schools to raise funds for the annual Bank of Valletta's L-Istrina campaign.

She was a chair of the Malta Community Chest Fund.