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Former First Lady Hillary Clinton has revealed plans to visit Swansea next month.

Mrs Clinton, who has Welsh lineage, is being conferred with an honorary doctorate by Swansea University on October 14.

The award is being made in recognition of her commitment to promoting the rights of families and children around the world.

Mrs Clinton was a lawyer before becoming First Lady during her husband Bill’s two terms of office.

She was then a US senator for eight years prior to two unsuccessful presidential bids, the latter a soul-destroying defeat to Republican opponent Donald Trump last November.

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The 69-year-old is attending Swansea University’s Bay Campus to receive her doctorate, and will then unveil a commemorative stone to mark the renaming of the College of Law to the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law.

University vice-chancellor Professor Richard Davies said: “We are honoured to present this award to Hillary Rodham Clinton, a figure of enormous international significance, and one synonymous with human rights.

“It is tremendous that she has chosen Swansea University for her first public appearance on this visit to the UK.”

Mrs Clinton’s third memoir, What Happened, was published this month and has sold several hundred thousand copies in America.

The book seeks to explain her defeat to Mr Trump, who infamously called for her to be locked up for her use of a private server for White House business while Secretary of State.

In his acceptance speech the golf-loving entrepreneur made an about turn, saying America owed her a “major debt of gratitude for her service to the country”.

Mrs Clinton’s great-grandfather was a Welsh miner who moved to Pennsylvania in 1879, and she has often mentioned her British background.

She is due to meet students during a walkabout at the Bay Campus after receiving her doctorate.

Professor Davies added: “Swansea University’s Observatory on the Human Rights of Children and Young People is working to improve human rights on a global basis through the exchange of policy, practice, advocacy and law reform and we are delighted that one of the biggest international names in politics and in advancing the rights of children is now synonymous with this work.”