Editing Billy Hughes (section)

===Second marriage===
After his first wife's death, Hughes's oldest daughter Ethel kept house for him and helped look after the younger children.{{sfn|Fitzhardinge|1964|p=178}} After a brief courtship, he remarried on 26 June 1911 to [[Mary Hughes|Mary Ethel Campbell]], the daughter of a well-to-do pastoralist. At the time of their marriage, he was 48 and she was 37.{{sfn|Fitzhardinge|1979|p=255}} Mary was politically and socially astute, and her husband often turned to her for advice on political matters. Unusually for the time, he insisted that he be accompanied by her on all of his overseas trips, even those made during wartime. Through his second marriage, Hughes also became the brother-in-law of [[John Haynes (journalist)|John Haynes]], one of the founders of ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]''. His niece, Edith Haynes, lived with him and his wife as a companion for many years.<ref>Hughes (2005), p. 155.</ref>
[[File:Helen Beatrice Myfanwy Hughes.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Helen Hughes (1915–1937), as painted by [[Philip de László]] in 1931]]
The only child from Hughes's second marriage was Helen Myfanwy Hughes, who was born in 1915 (a few months before he became prime minister). He doted upon her, calling her the "joy and light of my life",{{sfn|Fitzhardinge|1979|p=278}} and was devastated by her death in childbirth in 1937, aged 21. Her son survived and was adopted by a friend of the family, with his grandfather contributing towards his upkeep. Because she was unmarried at the time, the circumstances of Helen's death were kept hidden and did not become generally known until 2004, when the ABC screened a programme presented by the actor [[Martin Vaughan]]. Vaughan had played Billy Hughes in the 1975 film ''[[Billy and Percy]]'', and his continuing interest in him led to the unearthing of Helen's fate.<ref name="adb"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/rewind/txt/s1168547.htm|title=Rewind: ABC TV|publisher=Abc.net.au|access-date=16 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529000420/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/rewind/txt/s1168547.htm|archive-date=29 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>