In less than 24 hours, Dr Kei­th Row­ley will re­tire as Prime Min­is­ter, fi­nal­ly join­ing his wife, Sharon Row­ley, on that jour­ney, some­thing he said she's been ask­ing of him for sev­er­al years.

In an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Mrs Row­ley - known to be grace­ful and qui­et – the po­lar op­po­site to her of­ten bold and un­apolo­getic hus­band, shared how life has been in the White­hall, Port-of-Spain and what’s she most look­ing for­ward to in their fu­ture.

While the Prime Min­is­ter opt­ed to spend his fi­nal day in of­fice on the golf course in To­ba­go yes­ter­day, Mrs Row­ley, who was pack­ing up their be­long­ings to move out of the PM's Res­i­dence, used her fi­nal mo­ments to thank the na­tion while prais­ing her hus­band for leav­ing a lega­cy as one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s bet­ter lead­ers.