For Mr Osborne himself, this is an especially bad time to be conjoined in the headlines with billionaires and yachts.
Mrs Williams is believed to be the youngest mother of conjoined twins in Britain.
One can almost hear David Cameron announcing such a development in triumph - a conjoined policy, blending confidence in Scotland with reassurance for England.
At most corporations, three major missteps, conjoined with a precipitous loss in shareholder value, would engender an immediate escort out the door.
Conjoined twins are very rare - only one in every 2.5 million births - and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused at the head.
BBC: Conjoined twins separated by Great Ormond Street doctors
Great Ormond Street, where the surgery on Faith and Hope was carried out, is the most experienced centre in Europe for separating conjoined twins.
In 2000, the case of twins Jodie and Mary, from the Maltese island of Gozo, highlighted the ethical dilemmas involved in the separation of conjoined bodies.
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In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint.
Conjoined twins are very rare - it is thought one in every 200, 000 births - and around 40-60% of these births are delivered stillborn.
Historical records over the past 500 years detail about 600 surviving sets of conjoined twins with more than 70% of those surviving pairs resulting in female twins.
Conjoined twins are rare and take place at the rate of about one in 400, 000 live births.
The ProLife Alliance urged British doctors to follow the example of their counterparts in Italy, who are also dealing with a pair of conjoined twins who share a heart.
Before becoming the nation's chief doctor, Dr. Koop was famed for separating conjoined twins at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was surgeon-in-chief for three decades.
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