John MacLeod is a married man from Killiecrankie with whom Laoghaire had an affair as a teenager, though at the time she didn't know he was married. Still, she is a handsome woman, and tall for a Scot. As an adult pushing forty, her body has thickened around the middle and her face is plump and weathered, her once moonbeam-colored hair dulled to an ashy blonde. Laoghaire has fair hair and skin, pale blue eyes, and a round, pretty face. She goes so far as to beg Claire, with bribery, to return to America to attend to Henri-Christian, whose enlarged tonsils pose a serious threat to his health.
What is not in doubt, is that Laoghaire loves her daughters, and the grandchildren she has never met. When Jamie approaches her years later to apologize for deceiving her in their marriage, however unwittingly, Laoghaire's primary justification for her interest in Joseph Murray, the crippled man she has taken as lover, is that he needs her, and Jamie never did. Through her daughter, Marsali, Claire learns that Laoghaire's husband was violent with her and her daughters. Other aspects of her character are gleaned through brief dialogue later on. However, her personality in the books is presented through select points of view, primarily Claire's, and so any redeeming qualities she may have are frequently overshadowed by her involvement as antagonist to the series' main heroine. In middle age she seems to have retained the former qualities. Her daughter Joan, who wishes to join a convent, blackmails her mother into marrying the man.īy her actions at age sixteen, Laoghaire paints herself as covetous and vengeful, though at the same time very naive and immature.
Laoghaire subsequently takes up a relationship with her servant, Joey.
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