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Richard Ralph in Riga
In more revelations in the British press about the former Falklands Governor, 55-year-old Richard Ralph, now Ambassador to Romania, he is alleged to have had an affair in a previous post as Ambassador to Latvia as well as in the Falkland Islands.
The Mail on Sunday carries an article headed "Blair's sleazy rider" with a picture of Ambassador Ralph on his Harley Davidson motor-cycle with a young Latvian woman on the pillion.
The newspaper says it is a picture which will raise Foreign Office eyebrows, showing Mr Ralph in sweatshirt and jeans, with his beautiful blonde Latvian mistress, Solveiga Silkalna, then 25, only a few years older than his daughter.
The newspaper says: "Mr Ralph launched into his role as Our Man in Riga with gusto earning a reputation as a charismatic and flamboyant figure....He announced he was eager to promote relations between people from Britain and Latvia and evidently led by example".
Miss Silkalna, described as half Latvian and half Australian, then a translator for the Latvian President, is now the Latvian Foreign Ministry's director of communications.
Becoming Governor of the Falkland Islands, Mr Ralph had an affair with a young woman less than half his age, Jemma Jackson, then 25, who now lives with him in his official residence in Bucharest using the name Jemma Marlor.
Harold Briley (MP), London
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