What is Norma Major?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = |name = Dame Norma Major |honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE}} |image = |caption = |office = [[Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Spouse of the Prime Minister<br />of the United Kingdom]] |term_start = 28 November 1990 |term_end = 2 May 1997 |term_label = In role |primeminister = [[John Major]] |predecessor = [[Denis Thatcher]] |successor = [[Cherie Blair]] |birth_name = Norma Christina Elizabeth Wagstaff |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|02|12}} |birth_place = [[Shropshire]], England |death_date = |residence = |nationality = British |education = [[London South Bank University]] |occupation = {{hlist|[[Dressmaker]]|[[philanthropist]]|writer|[[biographer]]}} |order1 = |term1 = |successor1 = |spouse = {{marriage|[[John Major|Sir John Major]]|3 October 1970}} |children = 2 |party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] |relations = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Dame Norma Christina Elizabeth Major''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|DBE}}{{efn|A wife of a knight who is also appointed a dame, may choose between her own style, Dame [given names] [surname], or the style of a wife of a knight, Lady [surname].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/titles/dame.aspx |title=Dame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807112826/http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/titles/dame.aspx |archive-date=7 August 2009 |work=[[Debrett's]]}}</ref> Major prefers to use the style ''Dame Norma Major'',<ref name='dbe'>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/06/99/queens_birthday_honours/366850.stm |access-date=16 July 2010 |title=Norma Major honoured for fundraising |publisher=BBC News |date=12 June 1999 }}</ref> as she acquired this distinction in her own right.}} (''{{nee}}'' '''Wagstaff''', formerly '''Johnson'''; born 12 February 1942)