ABSTRACT
The media rarely miss an opportunity to create excitement about politicians, performers, and celebrities who are twins. There appears to be a divide between those who happen to be a twin and where the twinship is not relevant to the area of their importance or talent as famous people but is nevertheless hyped by the media, and those twins who use the twin relationship as part of their celebrity status or their performance. Mark and Carol Thatcher are an example of twins between whom rivalry has flourished at the expense of any more rewarding aspects of the twin relationship, perhaps exacerbated by favouritism. Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski were MZ twins who governed Poland. They were very alike in appearance and political views, and rarely appeared in public together. David and Frederick Barclay are the elusive, powerful twin brothers who own the island of Brecqhou, off the coast of Sark in the Channel Islands.
