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Full name :Maria Kaczyńska.
Born : 21 August 1942 (age)67 Smolensk, Russia.

Maria Kaczyńska the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of Lech Kaczyński, the then President of Poland.

Born as Maria Helena Mackiewicz in Machów to Lidia and Czesław Mackiewicz. Her father fought in the Vilnius Armia Krajowa (Home Army), while an uncle fought in the Polish II Corps of Gen. Władysław Anders at the Battle of Monte Cassino; another uncle was murdered by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police) at Katyń.

Maria Kaczyńska attended primary and secondary schools in Rabka Zdrój in southern Poland. She studied transport economics and foreign trade in Sopot at what is now the University of Gdańsk. After graduating in 1966, she worked at the Maritime Institute in Gdańsk, where she met Lech Kaczyński in 1976.

She married him in 1978. They had a daughter. In addition to her native Polish, Kaczyńska spoke English, French, and some Spanish and Russian.