Shredded: Sir Fred Goodwin's wife is grim-faced as her husband's alleged affair is made public

Unlike her husband's mistress, Lady Goodwin was no hiding behind anonymity.

He seemed tired and somber, Lady Joyce Goodwin cut a lonely figure as she was photographed leaving the £ 3.5 million family home in Edinburgh, where she is comforted by a close relative believed to be his mother.

He is considered the first time she, the mother of two children, Sir Fred has been seen in public since the allegations surfaced about her husband's infidelity.

"Fred does not live here, but you will not find it because it is never said a gardener." Joyce is always there but more often alone.

Sir Fred Goodwin faces MPs' claims that his alleged affair with a more experienced colleague could have affected his ruling that the Royal Bank of Scotland collapsed.

The manor of 2.3 acres was built for football Graeme Souness and purchased by the Goodwins in June It has a lighted tennis court, a Japanese garden and a fountain in the circular driveway.

The couple met at Sir Fred, 52, worked for Touche Ross accounting group in the 1980s.

Joyce was with a rival institution and the nose dropped to the same client that her future husband.

In a rare interview, Sir Fred said that their romance has increased after the "rough edge of his tongue during the meeting.

They married in Glasgow in 1990, Sir Fred began to climb the corporate ladder. While the Paisley-born banker began to mix with his sports hero Jackie Stewart and Jack Nicklaus, his wife also enjoyed the trappings of wealth.

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