Complex sentence: When she hastily married Allan McKeown in 1983, it made front page news all over the country with the press placing bets on how long the marriage would last; it would last nearly thirty years until his death in 2013.
Split into simpler sentences: When she hastily married Allan McKeown in 1983, it made front page news all over the country with the press placing bets on how long the marriage would last. It would last nearly thirty years until his death in 2013.