Miriam González Durántez (born 31 May 1968) is a Spanish lawyer and partner of international legal practice at Dechert.She is the wife of Nick Clegg, the former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Miriam González Durántez was born to two teachers in Olmedo, in the Spanish province of Valladolid. Her father, José Antonio González Caviedes, was also Mayor of Olmedo and served as a Senator for Valladolid for the conservative People's Party (PP) from 1989 until his death in 1996. She studied law at the University of Valladolid and then won a postgraduate scholarship to the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She met Nick Clegg in Bruges, and continued to work there. Wikipedia