By Nicole Hasham
Posing for a new headshot before the 2007 federal election, Malcolm Turnbull stood in the studio stiff-faced.
"I actually had trouble getting him to smile," the photographer Jom later reported of the Member for Wentworth.
"[But] Lucy Turnbull turned up and I got her to stand right next to the lens, and he smiled at her in a much nicer way than he was doing for the cameras."
As Malcolm Turnbull notched up CV credits as a journalist, barrister, banker, cabinet minister and now, likely prime minister, he was but one part of an indivisible alloy.
Lucy and Malcolm Turnbull.Credit: Edwina Pickles
"It is almost impossible for me to imagine, let alone remember, what it was like not to be together – so much so that I have a much clearer sense of 'Lucy and me' than I do of 'me'," Mr Turnbull told The Australian Women's Weekly last year.
"Lucy is one of those few people who light up every room she enters".
As Australian power couples go, none play the game as well or effortlessly as the Turnbulls – the confident, philanthropic, driven coalition that have been described as this nation's answer to the Clintons.
But not to be overshadowed by her prominent husband, Lucy Turnbull is an energetic public advocate and renowned breaker of glass ceilings who has "never seen myself as an appendage".
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull arrive for the memorial service for the victims of MH17.Credit: Michele Mossop
"My roles have sometimes been less visible but we were a very good team," she told Fairfax Media in 2011.
"My desire to make a positive contribution to the planet, to my community, has been a strong motivator for a long time."
Lucy Turnbull and her dog Jo Jo.Credit: Steven Siewert
Lucinda Hughes married Malcolm Turnbull in 1980. She has been made an officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the community and in 2003 became Sydney's first female lord mayor, breaking almost 20 years of working alongside her husband in law and banking.
Lucy Turnbull sits on boards including the Biennale of Sydney and the US Studies Centre at Sydney University, and is chair of the Committee For Sydney.
My roles have sometimes been less visible but we were a very good team
The couple have amassed a sizeable fortune, and live in a waterfront mansion in the exclusive Sydney suburb of Point Piper. They have two adult children, Alex and Daisy.
Out of the public gaze, the A-list couple are said to be romantic and happily domestic.
Lucy says the pair are "complete obsessives" about the ABC spy series Spooks, and when Malcolm appeared to have dropped a shirt size in 2011, it was reportedly the result of a "liquid" diet he embarked on with his wife.
This year Malcolm told News Corp he was still "madly in love with Lucy".
"We're very much a team," he said, adding "she supports me in my work and I support her in hers."