Victoria Mary Clarke is well known as the wife of an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician Shane MacGowan.
Clarke is an Irish journalist and writer. She has written for various newspapers and magazines in Britain and Ireland.
Clarke and singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, met when she was sixteen, eight years his junior. She wrote the biography, A Drink with Shane MacGowan.
They do not generally allow celebrities or journalists to frequent their house but Sinéad O’Connor has previously visited them. After an 11-year engagement, they married in November 2018 in Copenhagen.
Clarke is a music journalist who wrote for a number of newspapers and magazines. She is the author of Angel in Disguise.
Like MacGowan, she is also fan of literature and music. Clarke is also a yoga enthusiast. She believes in angels and claims to speak to them on a regular basis.
In December 2009, Clarke and McGowan appeared together on the RTÉ One reality television special Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own in which they attempted to tend to their own vegetables at an allotment in Dublin.